generalist vs Renaissance man

generalist and Renaissance man both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
generalist	Yes	No	No	No
Renaissance man	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, generalist and Renaissance man are synonyms defined as:

generalist and Renaissance man: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

generalist (noun)	Renaissance man (noun)
a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests	a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
	a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests