dilettantism

English

Etymology

From dilettante +‎ -ism.

Noun

dilettantism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dilettantisms)

1. The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or "dabbler", sometimes in the arts. Also the act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 237:

     As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham.

Related terms

• dilettante

Translations

the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur

• Bulgarian: дилетантизъм (bg) m ‎(diletantizǎm)
• Catalan: diletantisme (ca) m
• French: dilettantisme (fr) m
• German: Dilettantismus (de)

• Russian: дилетантизм (ru) m ‎(diletantizm)
• Spanish: diletantismo (es) m
• Swedish: dilettantism c, dilettanteri n
• Ukrainian: дилетантизм (uk) m ‎(dyletantyzm)