morbidezza
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian morbidezza.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbidezza (uncountable)
- Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Yea, when we forge its image in hir excellencie, we deck it with epithets of sickish and dolorous qualities: languor, effeminacy, weaknesse, fainting and Morbidezza, a great testimony of their consanguinity and consubstantiality.
- (art) A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbidezza f (plural morbidezze)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: morbidezza
Further reading
[edit]- morbidezza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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