dilettantism

English

Etymology

From dilettante +‎ -ism.

Noun

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.

Related terms

dilettante

Translations

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

Bulgarian: дилетантизъм (bg) m (diletantizǎm)
Catalan: diletantisme (ca) m
Czech: diletantství n, diletantismus m
French: dilettantisme (fr) m
German: Dilettantismus (de)

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

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