dilettantism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dilettante + -ism.
Noun[edit]
dilettantism (countable and uncountable, plural dilettantisms)
- 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.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 237:
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Translations[edit]
the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur
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