Autodidact
a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
Contemporary Examples
Since Carruth is a one-man band and autodidact, he learned how to create the special effects for the creature himself.
‘Upstream Color,’ Shane Carruth’s Sci-Fi Drama, Is the Year’s Craziest Film (So Far) Marlow Stern April 5, 2013
She was also an autodidact, an illegitimate girl from the provinces whose intelligence became the stuff of legend.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun Katie Baker November 7, 2014
noun
a person who is self-taught
n.
1746, from Greek autodidaktos “self-taught” (see autodidactic).
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