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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An intellectually disabled person who exhibits extraordinary ability in a highly specialized area, such as mathematics or music.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who exhibits an extraordinary ability in one subject (often mathematics) whilst being mentally retarded in all other fields.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory)

Etymologies

  1. French : idiot, idiot + savant, learned. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “There isn’t a single thing about any of us that hasn’t been documented: the teleportation of the Yogi, the telekinetics of some gamblers, the idiot savant mathematicians, and most of all, the so-called poltergeist, the moving about of household goods through the instrumentation of a young girl.”

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