virtuosity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɜː(ɹ)tjuˈɒsɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

virtuosity (countable and uncountable, plural virtuosities)

1. The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 93:

     Greek art and culture, which had become international, degenerated to mere virtuosity, empty of any ideal.

2. Lovers of the elegant arts as a class.

Translations

technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso

• Bulgarian: виртуозност f (virtuoznost)
• Catalan: virtuosisme (ca) m
• Esperanto: bravuro
• Finnish: mestaruus (fi), mestarillisuus (fi), virtuositeetti, taituruus (fi)
• French: virtuosité (fr) f
• Interlingua: virtuositate
• Irish: rímháistreacht f
• Italian: virtuosità f
• Polish: wirtuozeria (pl) f, wirtuozostwo (pl) n, wirtuozerstwo (pl) n, wirtuozja (pl) f
• Romanian: virtuozitate (ro) f, măiestrie (ro) f
• Russian: виртуозность (ru) (virtuoznostʹ)
• Slovak: virtuozita f