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  • noun An interest in hobbies.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a devotion to hobbies

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Examples

  • And on the other, more important point about “book hobbyism,” well, yes and no: at the same time that blogging has “helped prop up the other, worser idea that what we in the humanities do ought to be done for free” it has also opened new and extremely productive discourse communities and even in some cases actively professionalized (in the best sense) what used to be hobbies and private obsessions.

    Academic Blogging « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • To confront all, that is, except those few friends of intelligence who know our government's rottenness, who have the integrity to admit the charade of activist-hobbyism, and perhaps who could possessthe golden key to finally a decent solution.

    Rotten Government Reigns, and Like Bad Weather, We Do Nothing About It 2009

  • We need to get off the activist-hobbyism, enough with the signs on the street corners, and the weekend larks on the Mall, and get to work on uniting America's activists for really the first time.

    Urgent We Unite to Take Back America! 2009

  • The time for messages and activist-hobbyism is over.

    CHANGE YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION 2009

  • After four years of protest hobbyism, they went to Chicago with the intention of "refining" their organization, and they are dedicated to the proposition that no action to do SOMETHING THAT MAKES AN ACTUAL DIFFERENCE will be permitted to interfere with that or with the perpetuation of their charade of moral superiority.

    Now More Than Ever, The World Needs A Bold U.S. Antiwar Movement 2008

  • After four years of protest hobbyism, they went to Chicago with the intention of "refining" their organization, and they are dedicated to the proposition that no action to do SOMETHING THAT MAKES AN ACTUAL DIFFERENCE will be permitted to interfere with that or with the perpetuation of their charade of moral superiority.

    Now More Than Ever, The World Needs A Bold U.S. Antiwar Movement 2008

  • He gravitated toward the Rocket Mavericks, who were more serious- minded than some of the other tinkerers, and quickly imbued the organization with a vision that transcended hobbyism.

    Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets By Preston Lerner 2008

  • After four years of protest hobbyism, they went to Chicago with the intention of "refining" their organization, and they are dedicated to the proposition that no action to do SOMETHING THAT MAKES AN ACTUAL DIFFERENCE will be permitted to interfere with that or with the perpetuation of their charade of moral superiority.

    Now More Than Ever, The World Needs A Bold U.S. Antiwar Movement 2008

  • After four years of protest hobbyism, they went to Chicago with the intention of "refining" their organization, and they are dedicated to the proposition that no action to do SOMETHING THAT MAKES AN ACTUAL DIFFERENCE will be permitted to interfere with that or with the perpetuation of their charade of moral superiority.

    Now More Than Ever, The World Needs A Bold U.S. Antiwar Movement 2008

  • Though the country's penchant for order might appear to make it a fine candidate for development of a listing culture, it actually exists, along with other non-English-speaking nations, on the second tier of fanatic avian hobbyism.

    Chapbook entry M-mv 2006

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