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dilettantism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English dilettante Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dilettantism From dilettante + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.
   • 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:
   • Near-synonyms: dabbling, ultracrepidarianism, amateurism
   • 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. (countable, uncountable) The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts. ▸ The act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.

Forms

Relateds

dilettantist

Translations (19)

pt diletantismo (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · ca diletantisme (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · bg дилетантизъм (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · fr dilettantisme (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · pl amatorszczyzna (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · ru дилетантизм (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · da dilettantisme (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · cs diletantismus (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · pl amatorstwo (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · uk дилетантизм (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · cs diletantství (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · es diletantismo (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · is viðvaningssemi (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · sv dilettanteri (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · it dilettantismo (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · sv dilettantism (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · is áhugamennska (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · de Dilettantismus (the act of behaving like a dilettante) · lv diletantisms (the act of behaving like a dilettante)