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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[It., softness, delicacy. See

(Fine Arts)

Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

(Mus.)

A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.

Ludden.

morbidezza ‎(uncountable)

Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.20:
  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.
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(art) A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.

morbidezza f ‎(plural morbidezze)