morbidezza
English
Etymology
From Italian morbidezza.
Noun
morbidezza (uncountable)
- Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ludden to this entry?)
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- (art) A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.
Italian
Noun
morbidezza f (plural morbidezze)
- softness, smoothness, tenderness, mellowness
Related terms
- morbido