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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virtuosity \Vir`tu*os"i*ty\, n.
1. The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense
the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or
[ae]sthetic cultivation takes the place of religious
character; sentimentalism.
This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity
of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so
fondly. --C. Kingsley.
2. Virtuosos, collectively. --Carlyle.
3. An art or study affected by virtuosos.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
virtuosity
n : technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso
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