Virtuosity is outstanding technical skill in an art. Sheer virtuosity, technical virtuosity, a display of virtuosity.
It is praise for command rather than for feeling, which is why it can be faint praise: a performance admired only for its virtuosity was not moving. It belongs above all to instrumental music.
1nounvirtuosityOutstanding technical skill in an art.
“The young pianist played with such virtuosity that the audience rose to its feet.”
virtuosity is a skill.
The Italian virtuoso was a person of virtue — in the old sense, where virtue meant excellence at a thing, not goodness. Virtuosity is skill so complete that it has become a virtue in itself.
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From virtuoso, from Italian, meaning skilled, from Latin virtus, excellence.
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From virtuoso + -ity. From virtuoso + -ity; the terminal -o drops out. Compare Middle English vertuosite (“virtuous quality or character”). virtuoso Borrowed from Italian virtuoso. Italian virtuoso, from Latin virtuōsus (“virtuous”), from Latin virtus (“excellence”). a doublet of virtuous.
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