CONNOISSEURSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does connoisseurship mean? 

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

1. love of or taste for fine objects of art

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNOISSEURSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Love of or taste for fine objects of art

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

connoisseurship; vertu; virtu

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

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))

Derivation:

connoisseur (an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts)

 Context examples 

The Colonel, though disclaiming all pretensions to connoisseurship, warmly admired the screens, as he would have done any thing painted by Miss Dashwood; and on the curiosity of the others being of course excited, they were handed round for general inspection.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)