Genius vs. Scholar — What's the Difference?

A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new discoveries or advances in a domain of knowledge. Geniuses may be polymaths who excel across many diverse subjects or may show high achievements in only a single kind of activity.There is no scientifically precise definition of a genius.

A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly those that develop expertise in an area of study. A scholar may also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

Extraordinary intellectual and creative power

A learned person.

A person of extraordinary intellect and talent.

A specialist in a given branch of knowledge

A person who has an exceptionally high intelligence quotient, typically above 140.

One who attends school or studies with a teacher; a student.

A strong natural talent, aptitude, or inclination

A student who holds or has held a particular scholarship.

One who has such a talent or inclination

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

The prevailing spirit or distinctive character, as of a place, a person, or an era

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

Pl. ge·ni·i (jēnē-ī′) Roman Mythology A tutelary deity or guardian spirit of a person or place.

A learned person; a bookman.

Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.

(Singapore) someone who received a prestigious scholarship

Extraordinary mental capacity.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

A man of books.

(informal) Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

The peculiar structure of mind with which each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

A student who holds a scholarship

Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.

A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties and creativity; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;

Unusual mental ability

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Exceptional creative ability

A natural talent;