morbidezza

[ mawr-bi-det-suh; Italian mawr-bee-det-tsah ]

nounFine Arts.
  1. the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.

Origin of morbidezza

1
1615–25; <Italian, equivalent to morbid(o) delicate (see morbid) + -ezza-ice

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