amateur vs dilettante

amateur

noun
  • 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. 

  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

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

  • Non-professional. 

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

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 amateur and dilettante occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )