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say it: AM-uh-chur-i-zuhm
amateurism is a noun meaning "the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money". It carries one recorded sense.
the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for amateurism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.