I have already noticed the Dilettantism of the previous generation, and the interest of Gray and Collins and Warton and Walpole in antiquarian researches.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The very brush- work expresses the difference between the two; the crowding of nervous tentative lines, the subtler gradations of color, somehow convey a suggestion of Dilettantism.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
If Seneca reveals the depths of depravity in his age, we are equally bound to believe that he represents, and is trying to stimulate, a great moral movement, a deep seated discontent with the hard, gross materialism, thinly veiled under Dilettantism and spurious artistic sensibility, of which Nero was the type.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill