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What is the noun for dilettantism?

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dilettante
  1. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
  2. (offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As we discussed earlier, I'm a dilettante at best when it comes to dance, so I'm just going to be open about my ignorance.”
dilettantism
  1. 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.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I'd like to find a way of fulfilling some of my language-learning ambitions in a way other than dilettantism.”
      “Some minimise the two men's enthusiasms by presenting them as just an extreme form of identity-seeking dilettantism.”
      “The logic employed in the piece is precisely the sort of weekend-warrior dilettantism you'd expect.”
dilettanteism
  1. Alternative form of dilettantism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.”
dilettant
  1. Alternative form of dilettante
dilettanteisms
  1. plural of dilettanteism
dilettantisms
dilettanti
  1. plural of dilettante
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was expelled in 1797 on the ground of his authorship of the Letter to the Society of dilettanti.”
      “I said a moment ago that the most striking characteristic of the dilettanti is unoriginality.”
      “He knew that the kings were dilettanti, that the theory of the aristocracies was liberal.”
dilettantes
  1. plural of dilettante
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound.”
      “He wants to be a character from Brideshead Revisited sipping brandy Alexanders and being seduced by hopelessly wealthy dilettantes.”
      “Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.”
dilettants
  1. plural of dilettant
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