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dilettantism

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Definitions

  1. Superficial or amateurish interest in the arts or a field of study.

Word origin

From dilettante + -ism.

Used in a sentence

  • 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!
  • 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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