Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dilettantism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: dilet-tan-tism
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: dabbling, ultracrepidarianism, amateurism"
"The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!"
"As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham."

Etymology

Etymology tree English dilettante Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dilettantism From dilettante + -ism.

Usage

Inflected Forms

dilettantisms (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

dilettantist

Questions

What does dilettantism mean?: The act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur or dabbler, sometimes in the arts.
Where does dilettantism come from?: Etymology tree English dilettante Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dilettantism From dilettante + -ism.

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