What's the difference between virtuality and virtuosity?
Virtuality
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being virtual.
(n.) Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(3) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(4) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(5) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(6) The pathway of ketogenesis in renal cortex must differ from that of the liver, as beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl-CoA synthetase is virtually absent from the kidney.
(7) The diet increased the formation of a cholesterol-rich very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), decreased high density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated cholesterol and phospholipids, but had virtually no effect on low density lipoprotein (LDL)-lipids.
(8) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(9) Endotoxin is virtually devoid of effects at the metastatic level.
(10) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(11) In contrast, the fast block by internal TEA+ appeared virtually independent of voltage.
(12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(13) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
(14) When this is done it is evident that virtually all the calculated risk can be attributed to naturally occurring carcinogens in the diet.
(15) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(16) At a dose comparable to that given in vivo, cellular proliferation and antibody production were virtually eliminated in a secondary response in vitro.
(17) This was a highly significant (p less than 0.0001) predictor of 5-year total mortality, whose ascertainment was virtually complete.
(18) Serum gamma-GT was virtually unaffected by Triton X-100 at a concentration of 5% whereas urinary gamma-GT was 10-15% activated under similar conditions.
(19) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
(20) She said since then HMRC had created the largest virtual call centre in the world that enabled 20,000 HMRC staff to answer calls at any one time.
Virtuosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
(n.) Virtuosos, collectively.
(n.) An art or study affected by virtuosos.
Example Sentences:
(1) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(2) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(3) Technical virtuosity reifies the mechanical model and widens the gap between what patients seek and doctors provide.
(4) It's a kind of multi-dimensional virtuosity that contemporary music has hardly seen before.
(5) On Thursday the fourth series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle will begin on BBC2, and the new shows feature all of Lee’s trademark virtuosity – and his equally familiar self-evisceration.
(6) It is postulated that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, with its displays of saccadic virtuosity, is the major reason for the nocturnal prevalence of such recurrent hyphemas.
(7) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(8) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(9) But his underlying pleasantness was key to the huge success of his stand-up act, which – even when dealing with darker material such as addiction or divorce – relied more on verbal virtuosity than vitriol.
(10) The analysis presented also reveals that games that are dictated by strict rules, nevertheless offer a wide scope for creative enterprise since any game, just like, e.g., a piece of music, may be performed with great virtuosity without breaking any rules.
(11) Leaving aside the fact that there had been a 31% drop in the number of children in immigration detention in the last three months of the Labor government (excluding Nauru), if we drill down a bit we’ll discover the agenda behind the Coalition’s virtuosity.
(12) All the skill and technical virtuosity in the world will not be applied if we do not think of the disease.
(13) I was reacting to a particular dance ethos - which had always seemed to mean saying no to spectacle, to comedy or narrative, no to virtuosity.
(14) The orchestra's virtuosity of listening is miraculous: the way that each of the players knows instinctively what their role is in a gigantic Mahler symphony, when they have a solo, when they need to accompany another player, and how they need to blend in a chord.
(15) His virtuosity has lured star performers from other disciplines.
(16) It was only late in the noughties that El Sistema came to prominence in this country, thanks to the conducting virtuosity of Gustavo Dudamel and the brilliance of the Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra, El Sistema's flagship band.
(17) But for sheer technical virtuosity the most astonishing exhibit is a 3rd-century sarcophagus, carved from a single block of stone, showing the Romans fighting the Ostrogoths.
(18) One of them was the technical virtuosity of its founder and early staff: unlike many other comparable ventures undergoing explosive growth, Facebook coped brilliantly.
(19) Some of these newer procedures reach the very limits of technical virtuosity and are extremely time consuming and will need careful appraisal before their true place in clinical gynecology is established.
(20) Austen was the first novelist with the technical virtuosity to take you into the thoughts of her characters while also letting you laugh at them.