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dilettantism

[dil-i-tahn-tiz-uhm, -tan-]

noun

the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.

Also, dil·et·tan·te·ism

[dil-i-tahn-tee-iz-uhm, -tan-] .

Origin:
1800–10; dilettante + -ism

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dilettante (ˌdɪlɪˈtɑːntɪ)

—n , pl -tantes, -tanti
1.	a person whose interest in a subject is superficial rather than professional
2.	a person who loves the arts

—*adj*
3.	of or characteristic of a dilettante

[C18: from Italian, from dilettare to delight, from Latin dēlectāre]

dilet'tantish

—*adj*

dilet'tanteish

—*adj*

dilet'tantism

—n

dilet'tanteism

—n

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"American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when it concerns itself with religious dogma or political theory, is extraordinarily timid and superficial ... [I]t evades the genuinely serious problems of art and life as if they were stringently taboo ... [T]he outward virtues it undoubtedly shows are always the virtues, not of profundity, not of courage, not of originality, but merely those of an emasculated and often very trashy dilettantism."

-H.L. Mencken

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