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Skill so total it stops looking like effort and starts looking like truth.
means A person who has mastered a skill — especially a musical instrument — to a dazzling, exceptional degree.
from From Italian 'virtuoso,' meaning 'skilled' or 'learned,' itself rooted in Latin 'virtus' — 'excellence, merit, valor.' It first described a person of great learning or accomplishment broadly, then narrowed in musical contexts to mean a performer of exceptional technical brilliance. The Latin root 'virtus' is also the ancestor of 'virtue' — a reminder that in its oldest sense, 'virtue' meant raw excellence or capability, not just moral goodness.
- origin
- from virtue, as in excellence, not morality
- first use
- 17th-century italy, for learned scholars first
- misconception
- technique alone does not qualify you
- tell
- makes the impossible look slightly bored