Virtuosity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Virtuosity \Vir`tu*os"i*ty\, n.
     1. The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense,
        the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or
        aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious
        character; sentimentalism.
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              This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity
              of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so
              fondly.                               --C. Kingsley.
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     2. Virtuosos, collectively. --Carlyle.
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     3. An art or study affected by virtuosos.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  virtuosity
       n : technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "virtuosity":
     ability, accomplishment, address, adeptness, adroitness,
     aesthetics, airmanship, artfulness, artisanship, artistic taste,
     artistry, ascendancy, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity,
     cleverness, command, competence, connoisseurship, control,
     coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dash, deanship,
     deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, dilettantism,
     diplomacy, ear for music, eclat, efficiency, elan, epicureanism,
     epicurism, excellence, expertise, expertism, facility, favor,
     finesse, flair, friandise, gastronomy, grace, greatness, grip,
     handiness, horsemanship, incomparability, ingeniousness, ingenuity,
     inimitability, know-how, lead, majority, marksmanship, mastership,
     mastery, musical ear, musical sense, musical talent, musicality,
     musicianship, one-upmanship, panache, perfect pitch,
     practical ability, precedence, predominance, predomination,
     preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative,
     prestige, priority, privilege, proficiency, prowess, pyrotechnics,
     quickness, readiness, relative pitch, resource, resourcefulness,
     right-of-way, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seniority,
     sense of rhythm, show, showmanship, skill, skillfulness, staginess,
     style, success, superiority, tact, tactfulness,
     technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill,
     technique, timing, transcendence, transcendency, virtu, wit,
     wizardry, workmanship