Crossword-Solution: DILETTANTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dilettantism | n. | Same as Dilettanteism. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “DILETTANTISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being a dilettante | 2 answers |
| fussiness | 6 answers |
| Idealism | 16 answers |
| fastidiousness | 52 answers |
| correctness | 58 answers |
| plainness | 59 answers |
| good taste | 62 answers |
| purity | 65 answers |
| Discrimination | 71 answers |
| dignity | 71 answers |
| Elegance | 82 answers |
| Discernment | 85 answers |
| Goodness | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILETTANTISM (5)
Offsetting dilettantism, the Museum of New Mexico and associated institutions and artists and other individuals have fostered Indian pottery, weaving, silversmithing, dancing, painting, and other arts and crafts.
Dilettante is now a term of reproach; but there is a certain form of dilettantism to which no one can object.
One series of metamorphoses particularly amusing to watch is, that of an observant, receptive daughter of Uncle Sam who, aided and followed (at a distance) by an adoring husband, gradually develops her excellent brain, and rises through fathoms of self-culture and purblind experiment, to the surface of dilettantism and connoisseurship.
His conversation always made Archer take the measure of his own life, and feel how little it contained; but Winsett's, after all, contained still less, and though their common fund of intellectual interests and curiosities made their talks exhilarating, their exchange of views usually remained within the limits of a pensive dilettantism.
Broad-browed and strong-chinned, with a fineness in the honest gray eyes that were like Kerry’s, Burne was a man who gave an immediate impression of bigness and security—stubborn, that was evident, but his stubbornness wore no stolidity, and when he had talked for five minutes Amory knew that this keen enthusiasm had in it no quality of dilettantism.
Quotes with DILETTANTISM (3)
Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent...""Yes," said Rubashov. "So consequent, that in the interests of a just distribution of land we deliberately let die of starvation about five million farmers and their families in one year. So consequent were we in the liberation of human beings from the shackles of industrial exploitatio…
... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit and loss, and nourished ideals of honour and love, she placed in a class by themselves, superior to the rest of humanity.
Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day — whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason — that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it.