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virtuosity

/ˌvɜː(ɹ)tjuˈɒsɪti/

virtuosity noun: the technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

Noun

virtuosity (countable and uncountable, plural virtuosities)

  1. The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
    • Greek art and culture, which had become international, degenerated to mere virtuosity, empty of any ideal.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 93
    • At any rate, there is fun to be had not only from the De Vriesian virtuosity in pun and parody, but in following his literally incredible plot.1959 July 19, A. C. Spectorsky, “In Decency, Conn.: The Tents of Wickedness. By Peter De Vries. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  2. Lovers of the elegant arts as a class.

virtuosity meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

virtuosity in Urdu

فن شناسی, فنون لطیفہ کا ذوق

virtuosity in Malayalam

skilfulness, skill, mastery
കലാഭിജ്ഞത, കലാനെെപുണ്യം, കലാമർമ്മജ്ഞത, കലാചാതുരി, കേമത്തം, മികവ്

virtuosity in Kannada

ಚೆಚ್ಚರಿಕೆ, ಪಳಗಿಕೆ

Examples of virtuosity in a sentence

  • The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.
  • All told, werk is about creativity, virtuosity, and a certain kind of mastery.
  • As with a solo cello, a single-vineyard champagne highlights the virtuosity of the performer (whether it's the producer or the site).

All 11 example sentences with virtuosity

Forms of virtuosity

pluralvirtuosities

Origin of virtuosity

From virtuoso + -ity (“quality of”); the terminal -o drops out. Compare Middle English vertuosite (“virtuous quality or character”).

Questions about virtuosity

What does virtuosity mean?
Virtuosity means the technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
What is virtuosity in Urdu?
Virtuosity in Urdu is فن شناسی, فنون لطیفہ کا ذوق. See Virtuosity meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is virtuosity?
Virtuosity is a noun.
How do you pronounce virtuosity?
Virtuosity is pronounced /ˌvɜː(ɹ)tjuˈɒsɪti/.
What is the plural of virtuosity?
The plural of virtuosity is virtuosities.

Words near virtuosity in the dictionary

  1. virtuose
  2. virtuosi
  3. virtuosic
  4. virtuosically
  5. virtuosities
  6. virtuosity
  7. virtuoso
  8. virtuosos
  9. virtuosoship
  10. virtuosoships
  11. virtuous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: virtuosity (page history and authors); virtuosity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virtuosity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); virtuosity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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