n. The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. See dilelttantism.
Word Usage
"Petrarch, even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio, that the purely literary life, and that dilettanteism, which is the twin sister of scepticism, began."