Morbidezza

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  • n. Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
  • n. A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • n. A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That quality of flesh-painting which simulates the suppleness, elastic firmness, and soft delicacy of natural flesh.
  • Word Usage
    "We happened to dine at a lady's house, a league from Machecoul, where Mademoiselle de Retz, looking in the glass at an assembly of ladies, displayed all those tender, lively, moving airs which the Italians call 'morbidezza', or the lover's languish."