dilettantism
nounEtymology From dilettante + -ism.
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The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.
- Near-synonyms: dabbling, ultracrepidarianism, amateurism
- The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53:
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- 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, published 2012, page 237:
2
The act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
- Related terms
- dilettante