AMATEURISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amateurishness mean? 

• AMATEURISHNESS (noun)
  The noun AMATEURISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency

  Familiarity information: AMATEURISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMATEURISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("amateurishness" is a kind of...):

unskillfulness (a lack of cognitive skill)

Derivation:

amateurish (lacking professional skill or expertise)

 Context examples 

He read it over before mailing, and was particularly impressed by its sophomoric amateurishness and general worthlessness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She scarcely noted the rhythm otherwise, except when it became too pompous, at which moments she was disagreeably impressed with its amateurishness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)