Today's Word "autodidact"
One who is self-taught
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autodidact \aw-toh-DY-dakt\ (noun) - One who is self-taught.
"It was the abstract, acidulous work of an autodidact who had previously made a series of unusual contributions to various marginal and rarefied branches of quantum physics." -- Stanislaw Lem, 'Solaris'
Autodidact is from Greek autodidaktos, "self-taught," from auto-, "self" + didaktos, "taught," from didaskein, "to teach."
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