virtuosity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a technical skill, fluency, or style exhibited by a virtuoso

   Their virtuosity on the piano was recognized with an award.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Lovers of the elegant arts as a class.

Etymology

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