virtuosity

From virtuoso +‎ -ity (“quality of”); the terminal -o drops out. Compare Middle English vertuosite (“virtuous quality or character”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɜː(ɹ)tjuˈɒsɪti/

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virtuosity (countable and uncountable, plural virtuosities)

1. The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 93:

     Greek art and culture, which had become international, degenerated to mere virtuosity, empty of any ideal.

2. Lovers of the elegant arts as a class.