morbidezza
noun/ˌmɔː(ɹ)bɪˈdɛtsə/
Etymology Borrowed from Italian morbidezza.
1
Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: