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Dilettanteism

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See dilelttantism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • Word Usage
    "Petrarch, even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio, that the purely literary life, and that dilettanteism, which is the twin sister of scepticism, began."
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