grandezza
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
grandezza (uncountable)
- Grandeur, greatness, magnificence.
- 1907, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams[1], published 1918:
- Society went on excellently well without houses, or carriages, or jewels, or toilettes, or pavements, or shops, or grandezza of any sort; and the market was excellent as well as cheap.
- Stateliness, dignity.
- Magnanimity.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From grande + -ezza. Compare Sicilian grannizza.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
grandezza f (plural grandezze)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: grandezza
Further reading[edit]
- grandezza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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