What is the difference between dilettanteish and dilettante?
dilettanteish | dilettante | Derived terms |
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.
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Dilettanteish is a derived term of dilettante.
As adjectives the difference between dilettanteish and dilettante
is that dilettanteish is (dilettantish) while dilettante is pertaining to or like a dilettante.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.dilettante
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Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* dilettantish, dilettanteish * dilettantism, dilettanteismSee also
* amateur * dabblerReferences
* ). * “?dilettante]” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
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