amateur vs connoisseur

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. 

connoisseur

noun
  • A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste. 

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