Dilettantism
Definitions
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.
Equivalents
11 more languages
العربيةالتّذوّق الفنّيّ
Suomidiletantismi
עבריתחובבנות
Italianodilettantismo
日本語好事
Portuguêsdiletantismo
Русскийдилетантизм
Svenskadilettanteri
Українськадилетанти́зм
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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