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dilettanti
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dilettante \Dil`et*tan"te\, n.; pl. Dilettanti. [It., prop. p. pr. of dillettare to take delight in, fr. L. delectare to delight. See Delight, v. t.] An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere
artist living only for art, not a dreamer or a
dilettante, sipping the nectar of existence, while he
keeps aloof from its deeper interests.
--J. C.
Shairp.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of dilettante English)
WordNet
adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn: dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic]
[also: dilettanti (pl)]
n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, sciolist]
[also: dilettanti (pl)]
See dilettante
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Usage examples of "dilettanti".
Besides, as arguments in favor of Homoeopathy are constantly addressed to the public in journals, pamphlets, and even lectures, by inexperienced dilettanti, the same channel must be open to all its opponents.
It took place at the Schwartzenburg Palace, Vienna, on the 29th of April 1798, the performers being a body of dilettanti, with Haydn presiding over the orchestra.
Cleveland could not become the fashion with the public as an author, though the coteries cried him up and the reviewers adored him--and the ladies of quality and the amateur dilettanti bought and bound his volumes of careful poetry and cadenced prose.
Maltravers, on the other hand, introduced him to the literary dilettanti, who admire all authors that are not rivals.
Here there are books, paintings, music, wine, a little dilettanti getting-up of subjects of the day, a little dilettanti thinking on great affairs, perhaps a little dilettanti religion.
Una banda di texani, dall'accento tipico, contrabbandieri dilettanti di cocaina, sembra, si nasconde sull'isola fino a che non si presenti l'occasione opportuna per portare in patria la roba tenuta segretamente in serbo.
I have advised the dilettanti, whose foolish friends praised their verses or their stories, to give up all their deceptive dreams of making a name by their genius, and go to work in the study of a profession which asked only for the diligent use of average.
He sometimes held forth upon painting, like a member of the Dilettanti club.