Digress vs Dilettante - What's the difference?
digress | dilettante |
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
* Holland
* John Locke
* {{quote-song
, year = 1959
, title = In Old Mexico
, composer = (Tom Lehrer)
, passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .)
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
* Shakespeare
An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
(sometimes, offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
, rarely ' -es .
As a verb digress
is to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.As a noun dilettante is
an amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.As an adjective dilettante is
pertaining to or like a dilettante.digress
English
Verb
(es)- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
- Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.
Synonyms
* (turn from the course of argument) sidetrackdilettante
English
Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* dilettantish, dilettanteish * dilettantism, dilettanteismSee also
* amateur * dabblerReferences
* ). * “?dilettante]” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
, rarely ' -es .