Morbidezza

Origin

From Italian morbidezza.

Full definition of morbidezza

Noun

1. Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.
2. (arts) A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.----