ARTISTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artistry mean? 

• ARTISTRY (noun)
  The noun ARTISTRY has 1 sense:

1. a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

  Familiarity information: ARTISTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTISTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

art; artistry; prowess

Context example:

it's quite an art

Hypernyms ("artistry" is a kind of...):

superior skill (more than ordinary ability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artistry"):

airmanship; aviation (the art of operating aircraft)

eristic (the art of logical disputation (especially if specious))

falconry (the art of training falcons to hunt and return)

fortification (the art or science of strengthening defenses)

homiletics (the art of preaching)

horology (the art of designing and making clocks)

minstrelsy (the art of a minstrel)

musicianship (artistry in performing music)

enology; oenology (the art of wine making)

puppetry (the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows)

taxidermy (the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance)

telescopy (the art of making and using telescopes)

ventriloquism; ventriloquy (the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy))

 Context examples 

Neptune, the planet of artistry and beauty, will be perfectly supportive to the full moon and the Sun.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There will be no question that your imagination will be running at peak levels and that you will be capable of impressing others with your artistry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The trick had been to fling over the face of his artistry a mask of humanness, and this he had done in the half-dozen or so stories of the horror brand he had written before he emerged upon the high peaks of Adventure, Joy, The Pot, and The Wine of Life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you are a creative person and are paid for your ideas or artistry or you support creative people as an agent or publicist (as two examples), March 20, plus or minus one day, will be the day you’ll come up with wildly imaginative, original ideas.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)