MORBIDEZZA

PRONUNCIATION: (mor-bi-DET-suh)

MEANING: noun: An extreme softness, smoothness, or delicacy, especially in works of art, sculpture, music, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From Italian morbidezza (softness, smoothness), from morbido (soft, smooth), from Latin morbidus (diseased), from morbus (disease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mer- (to rub away or to harm), which also gave us morsel, mordant, mortal, mortgage, nightmare, amaranth, amaranthine, daymare, mortify, premorse, and ambrosia. Earliest documented use: 1624.
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MORBIDEZRA - American poet writing about death, disease, and unhappiness

AMOR B.I.D. EZZA - fall in love two times every day, Ezzy!

MORBIDEZIA - the black sheep of the Addams Family; second cousin to Itt and Morticia