Thursday, February 8, 2007

Dilettante

Etymology

Italian dilettare, to delight

Noun

Singular - dilettante (Plural - dilettantes or dilettanti)

1. A person who enjoys the arts.
2. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
3. A person with a broad but superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.)

I think that I shall appropriate this wonderful noun as an adjective to describe myself, perhaps in conjunction with the concept of a modern Renaissance Woman who equally embraces a hockey stick in one hand, and a book in the other...enrstwhile trying to keep all other interests and concerns loftily up in the air with a modicum of success.

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