The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!
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Dilettantism
Synonyms for "dilettantism" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (5)
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1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дилетантизъм noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Catalan
1 entries- diletantisme noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Czech
2 entries- diletantismus noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
- diletantství noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Danish
1 entries- dilettantisme noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
French
1 entries- dilettantisme noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
German
1 entries- Dilettantismus noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Icelandic
2 entries- viðvaningssemi noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
- áhugamennska noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Italian
1 entries- dilettantismo noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Latvian
1 entries- diletantisms noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Polish
2 entries- amatorstwo noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
- amatorszczyzna noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Portuguese
1 entries- diletantismo noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Russian
1 entries- дилетантизм noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Spanish
1 entries- diletantismo noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Swedish
2 entries- dilettanteri noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
- dilettantism noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дилетантизм noun (the act of behaving like a dilettante, of being an amateur)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham.
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