Someone who loves learning and knowing and saying random facts??
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Is there a term that means "a person who enjoys learning"? This term might be used to describe someone who:   Is a self-motivated learner. Is curious, wants to understand many things.   I understand the term "philosopher" might be a good fit, in terms of its root words, however, the general population has an inconsistent understanding of this term, so I am looking for a more precise term.
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What do you call it when someone has a strong opinion about something without having any experience with that thing? For example, if someone writes an entire newspaper article about how disgusting pie is without having ever eaten pie.  The word lodged in my brain is "hypocritical", but I know that's not correct.
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What is the term for, or the name for, a person who enjoys solving word puzzles, crosswords, etc.?
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Is there an English word or idiom that describes a person who's blissfully unaware or oblivious to their surroundings? I always thought this word was "aloof," but "aloof" seems to hold a rather negative connotation, whereas the word I'm looking would almost connote a positive, like "living in a fairy tale" - or something along these lines. Is there a word for this, or is "oblivious" as close as we get?
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What is another word for a person who likes to talk too much. I was thinking bigmouth, but bigmouth could mean "somebody who likes carrying messages voluntarily".
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Is there a word or phrase that describes when a person professes to know about a certain subject, but in fact knows nothing about it?
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Most of us have had the experience of stumbling over a new fact or bit of knowledge and then finding several more references to it in the near future.  For example, you see a strange word which you're forced to look-up and then the next day the same word appears in the headline of your local paper.  There's a term for this phenomenon but I've been unable to track it down.  Can anyone help?
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What will you call a person with an endless spirit of pursuing something?
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Just wondering, if there's a word for:  One who makes it appear as if they're an expert on a subject while there are also signals (subtly or blatantly noticeable) that this person doesn't know very much on the subject or at least as much as they're acting like they do on the subject; pretending to have much knowledge on a subject matter.  I found pedantic but I don't suppose it's the right word.
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A person who speaks kindly. Sometimes she might be hard, but fair.   What is an adjective to describe such person?
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What is a word for a person with more expertise (in certain field) than an intermediate but less so than an expert?
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Wikipedia has a "" link on the front page that makes it easy for people to start exploring. It would be interesting to have something similar for Stack Overflow, perhaps with an additional (optional) constraint for "unanswered" questions. This might help eventually provide some attention to long-forgotten questions that weren't lucky enough to get an answer when they were new.
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It isn't any of the words on this  and I believe it started with the letter 'e' (though please offer your word even if it doesn't).  Example sentence: Because he researched what he had heard from his friends, he was able to refute many of their _________________.  Factoid seems to be the closest one, but the word I am looking for only refers to a belief that is false.
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Are there idioms (or single words) in English for people who behave like they have come from another world where everything is perfect and know nothing about the reality? They usually come up with ideas that can never work, but look attractive if you don't analyze them properly. They know nothing about science, and it seems they don't know that people lie, cheat and get violent. PS in Russian we usually use the word "эльфы" (elves) for such people, and they are supposedly visiting our world from the "world of elves". It's usually considered pejorative.
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I recently read somewhere a single word that described a person who enjoyed an argument - in the sense of a lively debate. It may have been a word implying a positive or neutral context but I don't think it was negative or derogatory.  A complex word (uncommon in colloquial use), medium length (7-8 letters), possibly ending in -ic. One or more of these points may be a false memory.  Any ideas?
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I wonder how the following words for describing someone who knows many different things compare, and when to use which word.  Some  are adjectives, others are nouns:   renaissance polymath versatile aficionado ... (possibly others if you don't hesitate to mention)   Some background:   I encountered "aficionado" and "versatile" from a personal description      "It's getting harder and harder for me to believe that you're just a   hobbyist. Aficionado would be a better term. And a damn versatile one   at that!"  When I told some American I hoped to be polymath, he said they would use "Renaissance" instead.
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What do we call a person who keeps switching his stance on a topic during a discussion involving various sentences. What I mean is the speaker rejects something while accepting it indirectly. "Inconsistent" seems really close in a general sense. But he rejects it directly and again accepts it indirectly ( and I don't know he realizes that or not) again and again during a discussion.   I want it to have a neutral connotation as the person seems to be confused with his own ideas yet claiming to be right but we never know what are his intentions. Also it would be nice have a "politically correct" word for this.  I am not able to phrase the exact sentence because it is from another language and I need an English word for this activity/person. So every one is welcome to edit the question and add appropriate example sentences.