dilettante - vocabulary
dilettante - noun
One who engages in art or other subject for amusement, usually in a desultory or superficial way; a dabbler. Also used to refer to a lover of the fine arts.The second reason for his delay was a personal one. He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.Note: You may download the Grammar eBook Build Your Vocabulary and get all 406 vocabulary words.
—Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920)
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