dilettante

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who dabbles in an art or field of knowledge without serious commitment

   He was a dilettante in painting, never finishing a single canvas he began.

From Italian dilettante ('lover of the arts'), present participle of dilettare ('to delight'), from Latin delectare ('to delight, charm'), a frequentative of delicere ('to allure'), from de- plus lacere ('to entice').

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