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English
Etymology
From dilettante + -ism.
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.
1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, , →OCLC, pages 52–53: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!
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 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.
Translations
the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur