Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. art The art of performing a difficult task so gracefully, that it looks effortless.
Examples
“In order to pull glamour off, you need this Renaissance quality of sprezzatura, which is a term coined by Castiglione in his book, "The Book Of The Courtier.”
“Ferrari has aged Montezemolo, and while he is still the smart-dressing embodiment of that nonchalance the Italians call sprezzatura, he looks tired and lacks some of the verbal dynamism of 20 years ago.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“But the comment war between Lee Seigel (aka "sprezzatura"), the recently suspended culture critic of the New Republic, and one of his critics is laugh out loud funny (Begin at 16: 57: 44 on 2006-08-27.)”
“Cynthia: I don't want to know what "sprezzatura" means.”
“So a quick Google search on "sprezzatura" leads me to a Wiki page on a Renaissance work about a courtesan's ability to hide or mask what she truly feels.”
“Now the focus is shifting back towards Europe as designers there make an impact in the US with soft shoulder jackets, sharp cuts, pocket squares, color bursts, and a dash of sprezzatura.”
The Huffington Post: Edina Sultanik: 5 Menswear Trends to Watch for 2012/2013
“Twitching with ADHD, flogged by dyslexia, young Percy is a tangle of misfit symptoms — “Oh, I am going crazy!” he mutters after his first assault by a winged beast — until it is revealed that he is in fact a demigod: an estranged son of Poseidon, a boy whose ADHD is simply misdiagnosed divine sprezzatura, and whose dyslexia reveals that he has a brain “hardwired for ancient Greek.””
“Complaint Department: Your problem is sprezzatura.”
“A walking archetype of sprezzatura, the art of unstudied elegance, Mr. Agnelli who died in 2003 famously mixed casual elements into his business attire years before it became the rage.”
“The expert selection highlights their sprezzatura with color, as if they had been using it all their lives.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sprezzatura’.
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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malechi's list
peculiar, obscure, quirky, obsolete
cynosure, roun, clinquant, sprezzatura, cavil, salubrious, incunabulum, susurrus, scuppernong, coryza, arsiversie, gobemouche and 1 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sprezzatura.
AmyPretzl 'practiced nonchalance' Aug 20, 2011
cort http://sivers.org/sprezzatura Aug 31, 2009
jthornton http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/sprezzatura.htm Jul 5, 2009
malechi "To get an idea of this sprezzatura at work...one need only recall some of the supreme moments of comic films."
--Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies
"What, the curtains?" Dec 7, 2008
reesetee Ease of manner, studied carelessness; the appearance of acting or being done without effort Feb 23, 2007
gloriaha This is one of my favorite words of all time. Jan 5, 2007