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dilettante

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1. dilettante - Noun

2. dilettante - Adjective

3. dilettante - Verb

4. dilettante - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The cat is a dilettante in fur. Théophile Gautier

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything. Tom Hodgkinson

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. Anna Julia Cooper

Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them. Bob Black

The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. Abraham Pais

The man who designs in this spirit and with the sense of responsibility to the generation he lives in must be no coward, no denier, no bookworm, no dilettante. He must live of his life and for his life in the fullest, most consummate sense. Louis Sullivan

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