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Noun- An extreme delicacy and softness.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Was love ever painted with more truth and morbidezza than in the ninth book?
  • The analytical morbidezza, without which the modern generation finds it hard to imagine an author, is foreign to him.
  • But you took to drawing plans; you don't understand morbidezza, and that kind of thing.
  • Environed thus, and with a peculiarly Italian morbidezza, or plasticity we find Machiavelli.
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