as in proficiency
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great ability or skill shown by a musician, performer, etc.
Her virtuosity on the piano is amazing.
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Recent Examples of virtuosity
This album is great because of the musical virtuosity of the band, who give this album energy and life!
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George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Instead of virtuosity, textual fidelity and the pursuit of excellence, music making around vulnerable people calls on a mix of ethical values and social skills — chief among them the Hippocratic injunction to do no harm.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
The director, Frederik Louis Hviid, opens the movie with a display of self-defeating virtuosity: a robbery filmed in a single take entirely from the inside of an armored van.
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Working on a relatively low budget, in isolation from Hollywood, Tregenza displays a virtuosity that is fully integrated into his comprehensive cinematic vision, his finely imagined re-creation of history, and his long-gestating complex of ideas.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
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George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Instead of virtuosity, textual fidelity and the pursuit of excellence, music making around vulnerable people calls on a mix of ethical values and social skills — chief among them the Hippocratic injunction to do no harm.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
The director, Frederik Louis Hviid, opens the movie with a display of self-defeating virtuosity: a robbery filmed in a single take entirely from the inside of an armored van.
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Working on a relatively low budget, in isolation from Hollywood, Tregenza displays a virtuosity that is fully integrated into his comprehensive cinematic vision, his finely imagined re-creation of history, and his long-gestating complex of ideas.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Virtuosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtuosity. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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