Category: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 æsthetic 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.