dilettantism

English

Etymology

From dilettante +‎ -ism.

Noun

dilettantism (countable and uncountable, plural dilettantisms)

1. 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.

Related terms

• dilettante

Translations

the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur

• Bulgarian: дилетантизъм (bg) m (diletantizǎm)
• Catalan: diletantisme (ca) m
• Czech: diletantství n, diletantismus m
• French: dilettantisme (fr) m
• German: Dilettantismus (de)
• Latvian: diletantisms
• Polish: amatorstwo n, amatorszczyzna f
• Russian: дилетантизм (ru) m (diletantizm)
• Spanish: diletantismo (es) m
• Swedish: dilettantism c, dilettanteri (sv) n
• Ukrainian: дилетантизм (uk) m (dyletantyzm)