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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.
2
Quite unjustly, amateurism has come to imply incompetence rather than enthusiasm.
3
The national trend away from amateurism started even befor we were a nation.
4
He suggests that Kesey's amateurism was key to his countercultural attitude.
5
It remains to be learned how large a space the issue of amateurism occupies.
1
To her firm spirit the idea of working in gloves savoured of dilettantism.
2
My wife must consider herself quite above a reasonably melodious dilettantism.
3
The man's patriotic conscience could be felt struggling with his dilettantism.
4
What finicking dilettantism-wasever such antic, lisping, affecting fantastico?
5
Its dilettantism has infected the whole public sector.
Usage of dilettanteism in English
1
The trouble is, that the Cardinal despises Del Ferice and his political dilettanteism.
2
Philosophy had degenerated into sophistry, art into dilettanteism, oratory into rhetoric, poetry into versemaking.
3
His doubts and his dilettanteism are our own.
4
My father chose the law for his profession, why should he rebel if I choose dilettanteism?
5
The other common charge of dilettanteism, brought by such opponents as Professor Huxley and Mr. Frederic Harrison, deserves hardly more consideration.
6
I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern.
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.
8
Dilettanteism prattles pleasant things to you: I want you to BE everything that is pleasant.
9
Dilettanteism might possibly do much harm here, might mislead and waste and bring to nought a genuine talent.
10
"No one defends dilettanteism as such," she said.
Frequent collocations
Dilettanteism through the time