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Definition of Dilettantism
1. n. Same as Dilettanteism.
Definition of Dilettantism
1. 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. Can be perceived as superficial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dilettantism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilettantism
Literary usage of Dilettantism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1845)
"This true side is distinguished as Art, in opposition to the false side, which
is dilettantism. Now, in our country, every tendency is opposed to a true ..."
2. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography by Henry Adams (1918)
"... CHAPTER XIV dilettantism (1865-1866) THE campaign of 1864 and the reelection
of Mr. Lincoln in November set the American Minister on so firm a footing ..."
3. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The love of science and literature which inspired the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent
often took the form of literary dilettantism.f Like most of his ..."
4. John Howard, and the Prison-world of Europe by William Hepworth Dixon (1850)
"dilettantism.—His Love of Art.—His Return to England.—Sickness.—His First
Marriage.—Death of His Wife.—Leaves for Lisbon.—Is Captured by a French Privateer. ..."
5. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910)
"... but he learns what dilettantism is; he distinguishes between what he knows
and what he affects to know, and through some pain and self-accusation he is ..."
6. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... from the circles of aristocratic dilettantism, shows perfection of metrical
construction, and sparkling though strongly flavoured humour. 1. OVID. Pont. ..."
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