Definition of dilettante
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
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: 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
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The first known use of dilettante was in 1748
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