Dilettantism
Origin
From dilettante + -ism.
Full definition of dilettantism
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.