Usually means: Effortless grace in skill execution.
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  1. sprezzatura: Merriam-Webster
  2. sprezzatura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sprezzatura: Wordnik
  4. sprezzatura: Wiktionary
  5. sprezzatura: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Sprezzatura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. sprezzatura: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sprezzatura)

▸ noun:  (chiefly art, music) The art of performing a difficult task so gracefully that it looks effortless; calculated nonchalance.

Similar:
artfulness, snazziness, showmanship, grace, finesse, sleight, prowess, panache, style, aplomb, more...

Opposite:
self-conscious, self-aware, self-effacing

Adjectives:
courtly, certain, aristocratic, own, old, deliberate

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Similar:
artfulness, snazziness, showmanship, grace, finesse, sleight, prowess, panache, style, aplomb, more...

Opposite:
self-conscious, self-aware, self-effacing

Adjectives:
courtly, certain, aristocratic, own, old, deliberate



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