Meanings of dilettanteism in English

The trouble is, that the Cardinal despises Del Ferice and his political dilettanteism.

Philosophy had degenerated into sophistry, art into dilettanteism, oratory into rhetoric, poetry into versemaking.

His doubts and his dilettanteism are our own.

My father chose the law for his profession, why should he rebel if I choose dilettanteism?

The other common charge of dilettanteism, brought by such opponents as Professor Huxley and Mr. Frederic Harrison, deserves hardly more consideration.

I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern.

An idling-place of dilettanteism or of itinerant motiveless wealth, a territory parcelled out for papal sustenance, dynastic convenience, and the profit of an alien Government.

Dilettanteism prattles pleasant things to you: I want you to BE everything that is pleasant.

Dilettanteism might possibly do much harm here, might mislead and waste and bring to nought a genuine talent.

"No one defends dilettanteism as such," she said.