Saturday, April 21, 2007

Dilettante

I discovered a new word today and it sounds a bit like me! I love art, I love crafts, but I really am just so-so, truly an amateur. But I enjoy what I do.

dilettante definition

n. pl. dil·et·tantes also dil·et·tan·ti
1.
A dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge.

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Noun

Singular
dilettante


Plural
dilettantes or dilettanti

dilettante (plural dilettantes or dilettanti)

  1. A person who enjoys the arts.
  2. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
  3. A person with a broad but superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.)

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