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
  • Most amateurs can’t bring themselves to do it.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Olympians Chase Budinger, Taylor Crabb and Carli Lloyd will compete, and there are two teams made up of amateurs who went through qualifying rounds to participate.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 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
  • The scholars included a variety of specialists, including experts in the text of the Quran, jurisprudence, and calligraphy.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Multiple rights experts and scholars say Israel's military assault on Gaza amounts to genocide.
    Jarrett Renshaw, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Utah authorities released photos of the person of interest in the shooting on Thursday in which the individual can be seen on steps while carrying a black backpack and wearing a shirt with what appeared to be an American flag print on it.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In spite of Husseini’s role in leading a pogrom in Jerusalem in 1920, British authorities made Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem, the leading Muslim cleric in the land.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 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 17 Sep. 2025.

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