generalist vs bookman

generalist and bookman both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
generalist	Yes	No	No	No
bookman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bookman is a hypernym of generalist; that is, bookman is a word with a broader meaning than generalist:

generalist: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
bookman: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of generalist include scholar, scholarly person.

generalist (noun)	bookman (noun)
a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines