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Word of the Day - Terribilita
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terribilità
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛrɪbɪlɪˈtɑː/
noun
[mass noun]
Awesomeness or emotional intensity of conception and execution in an artist or work of art, originally as a quality attributed to Michelangelo by his contemporaries: Brown has come up with a new brand of terribilità that may be extrapolated into a sense of the sublime
Origin
Italian.
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No illustration can approach the terribilità of an original statue by Michelangelo. At best, this silhouette might be called "Davie" or maybe "Dave", never the original, evocative "David."
