dilettante

  1. Noun.  An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
  2. Noun.  A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.).
  3. Adjective.  Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

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