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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Cameras see through virtuosity to reveal states of being.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Another element she’s borrowed from Prince is a sense of casual virtuosity.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
This album is great because of the musical virtuosity of the band, who give this album energy and life!
—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
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Another element she’s borrowed from Prince is a sense of casual virtuosity.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
This album is great because of the musical virtuosity of the band, who give this album energy and life!
—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
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“Virtuosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtuosity. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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