dilettante
noun
dil·et·tante
ˈdi-lə-ˌtänt
-ˌtant;
ˌdi-lə-ˈtänt,
-ˈtant
plural dilettantes or dilettanti
ˌdi-lə-ˈtän-tē
-ˈtan-tē
1
: a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler
Mr. Carroll often criticizes the superficial lives of the dilettantes … who mingle in New York.—Mark Stevens
Whitman ran an amateurish campaign … and was painted as an aristocratic dilettante.—Eleanor Clift
2
dated
: an admirer or lover of the arts
It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.—Jack London
dilettante
adjective
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