Definition of "savants" [savants]

• Plural form of savant. (noun)

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• "The other amazing thing about these political savants is how they never actually specify what form this “fighting like hell” will take."
• "The color ordering systems I have presented show how certain savants used their understanding of the sciences and of art to emphasize different physical forms or highlight different underlying theories."
• "Steve Silberman, who wrote a brilliant piece on geeks and autism in Wired a couple years back, has a great long feature in the current issue about autistic "savants" -- people who have an instinctive, brilliant grasp of some abstruse task, such as music or math."