Dilettante Definition

dĭlĭ-tänt, dĭlĭ-tänt, -tănt
dilettantes, dilettanti
noun
dilettantes, dilettanti
One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge.
American Heritage
A person who loves the fine arts.
Webster's New World
A person who follows an art or science only for amusement and in a superficial way; dabbler.
Webster's New World

An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.

Wiktionary
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adjective
Superficial; amateurish.
American Heritage
Of or characteristic of a dilettante.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Dilettante

Noun

Singular:
dilettante
Plural:
dilettantes, dilettanti

Origin of Dilettante

  • Italian lover of the arts from present participle of dilettare to delight from Latin dēlectāre delight

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian dilettante, prop. present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin delectare (“to delight”).

    From Wiktionary

Dilettante Sentence Examples

  • His ambitions were high, but he became a dilettante.

  • At Athens he must have been a dilettante, an idler, without political rights or duties.

  • From this time, with the exception of occasional public appearances, he gave himself up to elegant luxury, with which he combined a sort of dilettante pursuit of philosophy, literature and art.

  • Catulus in the preceding generation, was a kind of dilettante poet and a precursor of the poetry of pleasure, which attained such prominence in the elegiac poets of the Augustan age.

  • Yet there was an unspoken assumption by the economic Fellows that unless I attended their advanced sessions I was just a dilettante.

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