dilettante.

A person who takes an interest in an art or field without sustained expertise or commitment.

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Words that belong together

• an artistic dilettante
• a wealthy dilettante
• dismiss someone as a dilettante

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The curator called him a dilettante until he identified the forgery by its varnish.

She refused to become a dilettante who collected instruments but never learned to play.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular dilettante; plural dilettantes or dilettanti. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.