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Meanings of dilettanteism in English

The practice, quality, or character of an amateur or amateurish performance.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "amateurism"
        Examples for "amateurism"
        1
        Forty years ago we applied rules on amateurism to top-class athletes.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Quite unjustly, amateurism has come to imply incompetence rather than enthusiasm.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The national trend away from amateurism started even befor we were a nation.
        The new yorker
        4
        He suggests that Kesey's amateurism was key to his countercultural attitude.
        The Guardian
        5
        It remains to be learned how large a space the issue of amateurism occupies.
        The Irish Times
        1
        To her firm spirit the idea of working in gloves savoured of dilettantism.
        Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
        2
        My wife must consider herself quite above a reasonably melodious dilettantism.
        The Goose Man
        3
        The man's patriotic conscience could be felt struggling with his dilettantism.
        Missing
        4
        What finicking dilettantism-wasever such antic, lisping, affecting fantastico?
        My Tropic Isle
        5
        Its dilettantism has infected the whole public sector.
        The Guardian
        Usage of dilettanteism in English
        1
        The trouble is, that the Cardinal despises Del Ferice and his political dilettanteism.
        Saracinesca
        2
        Philosophy had degenerated into sophistry, art into dilettanteism, oratory into rhetoric, poetry into versemaking.
        The Life of St. Paul
        3
        His doubts and his dilettanteism are our own.
        Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
        4
        My father chose the law for his profession, why should he rebel if I choose dilettanteism?
        A Beautiful Possibility
        5
        The other common charge of dilettanteism, brought by such opponents as Professor Huxley and Mr. Frederic Harrison, deserves hardly more consideration.
        Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
        6
        I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern.
        Cosmopolis — Volume 1
        7
        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.
        Impressions of Theophrastus Such
        8
        Dilettanteism prattles pleasant things to you: I want you to BE everything that is pleasant.
        Gala-Days
        9
        Dilettanteism might possibly do much harm here, might mislead and waste and bring to nought a genuine talent.
        Celtic Literature
        10
        "No one defends dilettanteism as such," she said.
        White Ashes
        Dilettanteism through the time