Dilettante vs Layman - What's the difference?
dilettante | layman |
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 . layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy
by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field
a common person
a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject
* 2005 , .
a generally ignorant person
lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order
As nouns the difference between dilettante and layman
is that dilettante is an amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest while layman is layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.As an adjective dilettante
is pertaining to or like a dilettante.dilettante
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Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* dilettantish, dilettanteish * dilettantism, dilettanteismSee also
* amateur * dabblerReferences
* ). * “?dilettante]” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
, rarely ' -es .
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(wikipedia layman)Noun
(laymen)- Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman .
- Let me explain it to you in layman's terms.
- should he be held to be just a layman , or does he have some art?
