GRE Plus Vocab

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

dilettante
n.
A dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge; a lover of the fine arts but in an amateurish or superficial way.

The world of intelligentsia is one of snobs, where the dilettantes are snubbed and only those with immense domain expertise acknowledged as worth their salt.

A Connoisseur is what you crave to be, not a smatterer or dilettante.

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