as in proficiency
formal
great ability or skill shown by a musician, performer, etc.
Her virtuosity on the piano is amazing.
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Her’s virtuosity comes into fuller view in San José, where the works seen around Sheboygan are presented in a more traditional museum setting.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
McCullers has a real virtuosity for depicting alienation and giving people secret yearnings and personal histories.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Billy Strings and Jack White brought their coolly aloof swagger of being in the moment but above the fray of the grooving rhythms underpinning their virtuosity to Perkins songs.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Let us, for the moment, grant the validity of their examples of past grand strategic virtuosity.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
McCullers has a real virtuosity for depicting alienation and giving people secret yearnings and personal histories.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Billy Strings and Jack White brought their coolly aloof swagger of being in the moment but above the fray of the grooving rhythms underpinning their virtuosity to Perkins songs.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Let us, for the moment, grant the validity of their examples of past grand strategic virtuosity.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtuosity
proficiency
Noun
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About 78% failed to reach proficiency in math for their grade on the 2024-25 exam.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Growth in math proficiency was similar, said Horne.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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