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AMATEURISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does amateurism mean?
• AMATEURISM (noun)
The noun AMATEURISM has 1 sense:
1. the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money
Familiarity information: AMATEURISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("amateurism" is a kind of...):
article of faith; conviction; strong belief (an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence)
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