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Dilettantism vs Dilettantish - What's the difference?

dilettantism | dilettantish |

As a noun dilettantism

is the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or "dabbler", sometimes in the arts also the act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.

As an adjective dilettantish is

amateurish.

dilettantism

English

Noun

  • The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or "dabbler", sometimes in the arts. Also the act of enjoying the arts, being a connoisseur.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 237:
  • As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham.

    dilettantish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • amateurish