dilettantes

variants or dilettanti
plural of dilettante
1
as in amateurs
a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession a dilettante at heart, she was never willing to commit the time and effort that ballet demands

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as in connoisseurs
dated a person having a knowledgeable and fine appreciation of the arts she writes about art not from the point of view of an artist but from that of a committed dilettante

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Recent Examples of dilettantes Packer and Srulovich aren’t dilettantes, either. Lela London, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Touchdown / Call the amateurs and cut ’em from the team.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On the other hand, many amateurs lose balls with alarming regularity, especially in places like Florida with lots of water hazards, and if those balls cost five to six bucks a pop, which the top models do, that can add up to more than the 19th hole bar tab.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The one that connoisseurs tend to care about the most, of course, is India Pale Ale.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In 2019, Lung made a deal with Pop Mart, a company that caters to toy connoisseurs and influencers, to sell the figurines.
    Fortune, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At $3,499, it is clearly not priced for small-scale tinkerers.
    Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The New Yorker was inventing its voice, and Flanner was in the clique of tinkerers.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Leading genocide scholars passed a resolution this week that declared Israel’s actions in Gaza had met the legal definition of genocide.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, meanwhile, is referred to by public scholars and media in a variety of ways that emphasize Russia or President Vladimir Putin as an aggressive antagonist.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Ayman Soliman, a former hospital chaplain, has been detained by immigration authorities since July after losing his asylum status.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The couple is accused of killing their 7-month-old son despite the fact that authorities have yet to find the infant's remains.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Taiwanese policy experts fear that this lack of access to the president will make renegotiating the tariffs impossible.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One major concern experts have flagged is liquidity risks in private asset funds.
    Jenni Reid,Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Dilettantes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilettantes. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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