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dilettantism
noun
(dil-et-tante)
a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler
dilettantism
noun
(dil-et-tante)
an admirer or lover of the arts
dilettantism
noun
(dil-et-tante)
a person whose interest in an art or in an area of knowledge is not very deep or serious
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dilettantism
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philistinism
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charlatanry
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vapidity
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superficiality
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pedantry
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pretentiousness
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intellectualism
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priggishness
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pretension
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egotism
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pompousness
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pomposity
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frivolousness
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fatuity
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wilfulness
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aestheticism
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slovenliness
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artlessness
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glibness
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egocentricity
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insipidness
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knavery
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inanity
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triteness
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unorthodoxy
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clownishness
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vacuousness
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superciliousness
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disingenuity
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presumptuousness
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subversiveness
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inarticulateness
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puerility
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attitudinizing
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onanism
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ingenuousness
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harlotry
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cliquishness
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daftness
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facetiousness
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gaucherie
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obstreperousness
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knowingness
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crudities
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unworldliness
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blatancy
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didacticism
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insipidity
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fatuousness
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juvenility
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prolixity
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trashiness
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dumbness
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misanthropy
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eccentricity
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grandiloquence
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archaism
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tawdriness
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ineffectuality
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gaucheness
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anglophilia
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lechery
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sybarite
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boastfulness
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infantilism
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sulkiness
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taciturnity
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whimsicality
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abjection
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sophist
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scatology
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sanctimoniousness
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panegyrics
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articulacy
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wishfulness
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vapidness
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slyness
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infelicities
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tendentiousness
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solipsist
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tactlessness
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incuriosity
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obliqueness
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unoriginality
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moralizing
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perversity
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absurdness
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auteurism
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archness
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nabokovian
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journalese
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historicism
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elitism
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incoherency
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popularism
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insubstantiality
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ingratiation
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bookishness
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rawly
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sarcasms
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dilettantism
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