Usually means: Exceptional skill with cognitive deficits.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word idiot savant:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. idiot savant: Merriam-Webster
  2. idiot savant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idiot savant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. idiot savant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. idiot savant: Vocabulary.com
  6. idiot-savant, idiot savant: Wiktionary
  7. idiot savant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. idiot savant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. idiot-savant, idiot savant: Dictionary.com
  10. Idiot savant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. idiot savant: Rhymezone
  12. idiot savant: FreeDictionary.org
  13. idiot savant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. idiot savant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idiot savant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idiot savant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. idiot savant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Idiot savant: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. idiot savant: Medical dictionary
  7. Idiot savant: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. idiot savant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Idiot Savant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See idiot_savants as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (idiot savant)

noun:  (possibly derogatory) A person who exhibits an extraordinary ability in one subject (often mathematics) whilst being intellectually disabled in many other domains.

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