Meanings
plural dilettantisms
- countableuncountableThe act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.
Near-synonyms: dabbling, ultracrepidarianism, amateurism
2 more 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!
1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53As 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- countableuncountableThe act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian дилетантизъм
- дилетантизъм (diletantizăm)the act of behaving like a dilettante
Catalan diletantisme
- diletantismethe act of behaving like a dilettante
Czech diletantství, diletantismus
- diletantstvíthe act of behaving like a dilettante
- diletantismusthe act of behaving like a dilettante
Danish dilettantisme
- dilettantismethe act of behaving like a dilettante
French dilettantisme
- dilettantismethe act of behaving like a dilettante
German Dilettantismus
- Dilettantismusthe act of behaving like a dilettante
Icelandic viðvaningssemi, áhugamennska
- viðvaningssemithe act of behaving like a dilettante
- áhugamennskathe act of behaving like a dilettante
Italian dilettantismo
- dilettantismothe act of behaving like a dilettante
Latvian diletantisms
- diletantismsthe act of behaving like a dilettante
Polish amatorstwo, amatorszczyzna
- amatorstwothe act of behaving like a dilettante
- amatorszczyznathe act of behaving like a dilettante
Portuguese diletantismo
- diletantismothe act of behaving like a dilettante
Russian дилетантизм
- дилетантизм (diletantizm)the act of behaving like a dilettante
Spanish diletantismo
- diletantismothe act of behaving like a dilettante
Swedish dilettantism, dilettanteri
- dilettantismthe act of behaving like a dilettante
- dilettanterithe act of behaving like a dilettante
Ukrainian дилетантизм
- дилетантизм (dyletantyzm)the act of behaving like a dilettante
Cite this entry
dilettantism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dilettantism
“dilettantism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dilettantism. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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