dilettante: one who dabbles in the arts; an amateur; an admirer of the arts or of a particular field of study; a dabbler - someone with a broad but shallow attachment to any field
The origin of this word: the Latin word for 'delight'
Why I chose this word: This is a word I hear or read occasionally without really knowing the meaning of or bothering to look up.
Actual use of the word found on the web: She was, in the parlance of the time, a 'sermon taster', going to any church where the preaching was supposed to be good; for a dilettante churchgoer Brighton was then an exciting place to be.-- Matthew Sturgis
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