• Dilettantism

    Origin

    From dilettante + -ism.

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    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.

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