noun
- a person who learns or studies late in life; someone who becomes a scholar or student in old age
Usage: formal; rare
Examples
- At seventy, she became an opsimath, enrolling in university courses for the first time.
- The opsimath spent his retirement years mastering ancient Greek and Latin.
- Many opsimaths find that learning in later life brings unexpected joy and fulfillment.
- He was an opsimath who didn't discover his passion for mathematics until his sixties.