What Does Sprezzatura Mean?

Sprezzatura is an Italian word that first appears in Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it".

What is the meaning of the term sprezzatura?

: studied nonchalance : graceful conduct or performance without apparent effort.

How do you use sprezzatura in a sentence?

Examples of 'sprezzatura' in a sentence sprezzatura
  1. It is an acrobatics of raw and precarious sprezzatura. ...
  2. The modernist era was pure international sprezzatura. ...
  3. Defining the term 'sprezzatura' has never been easy. ...
  4. She devotes a whole paragraph to distinguishing the darker shades of sprezzatura.
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