raw talent
RAW TAL-ent
rɔː ˈtæləntListen
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natural ability of exceptional quality that has not yet been shaped or refined by formal training, education, or sustained practice — ability that impresses precisely because it is underdeveloped and suggests extraordinary potential yet to be realised; raw talent is distinguished from cultivated skill by its spontaneity and its visible surplus of untapped capacity; in art, sport, and music, discovering raw talent is the dream of scouts, teachers, and patrons, as it promises a combination of natural gift and the plasticity of an unformed sensibility that formal training can develop in any direction; the rawness implies that the talent is authentic and unmediated, not the product of imitation or convention
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