aesthete vs dilettante

aesthete

noun
  • Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility. 

dilettante

noun
  • A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. 

  • An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or like a dilettante. 

How often have the words aesthete and dilettante occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )