Hypertext Webster Gateway: "virtuosity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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
[ae]sthetic cultivation takes the place of religious
character; sentimentalism.

This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity
of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so
fondly. --C. Kingsley.

2. Virtuosos, collectively. --Carlyle.

3. An art or study affected by virtuosos.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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