dilettante

Meanings

Noun

• An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
• A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.

Adjective

• Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

Origin

• From Italian dilettante, prop. present participle of dilettare, from Latin dēlectāre ("to delight").