amateur vs cognoscenti

amateur

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

cognoscenti

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