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Meanings of dilettantism in English

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

Usage of dilettantism in English
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
6
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy.
Essays — Second Series
7
Their critics built up their impotence to issue from dilettantism into a theory, an intolerant theory.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
8
They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism.
Personality in Literature
9
And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact.
Past and Present
10
George regarded the short thoroughfare made notorious by the dilettantism, the modishness, and the witticisms of art.
The Roll-Call
11
Conversational, dilettantism and immensely self-satisfied, it is an exercise in intellectual trickery yet possesses charm and humour.
The Irish Times
12
Society divides naturally into classes, dilettantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
13
Charlatans among the leaders of the new thought, and society dilettantism, both came under his merciless lash.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
14
It is pure dilettantism, again, to seek the moral of Irish commotions in the insurrection of La Vendée.
Studies in Literature
15
But as soon as their dilettantism had given place to the rational methods of computers, the problems were solved.
The End of Man?
16
All my so-called study of modern life in former days was the merest dilettantism, mere conceit and boyish pedantry.
Thyrza
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