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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
delicacy
n 1: the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance;
"the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her
features" [syn: daintiness, delicacy, fineness]
2: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty,
delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]
3: refined taste; tact [syn: delicacy, discretion]
4: smallness of stature [syn: delicacy, slightness]
5: lack of physical strength [syn: fragility, delicacy]
6: subtly skillful handling of a situation [syn: delicacy,
diplomacy, discreetness, finesse]
7: lightness in movement or manner [syn: airiness, delicacy]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Delicacy \Del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Delicacies. [From Delicate,
a.]
1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to
the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of
odor, and the like.
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What choice to choose for delicacy best. --Milton.
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2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence,
frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a
thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy
of the skin; delicacy of frame.
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3. Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or
tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and
hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great
delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness;
delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
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You know your mother's delicacy in this point.
--Cowper.
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4. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence;
luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy? --Milton.
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5. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical
niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast
of the great public schools of England. --Macaulay.
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6. The state of being affected by slight causes;
sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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7. That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or
pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to
the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
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The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
the abundance of her delicacies. --Rev. xviii.
3.
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8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
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He Rome brent for his delicacie. --Chaucer.
Syn: See Dainty.
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Thesaurus Results for Delicacy:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence, appreciativeness, artistic judgment, ascent, attention to detail, attention to fact, attentiveness, attenuation, banquet, beauty, bonne bouche, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, bubbliness, buoyancy, cachexia, cachexy, care for truth, cate, chanciness, changeableness, choice morsel, choiceness, chronic ill health, circumstantiality, civilized taste, civilizedness, collapse, complaisance, concern, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, considerateness, consideration, correctness, cosseting, crackability, crackableness, crispness, critical niceness, criticality, criticalness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, cunningness, cuteness, daintiness, dainty, debilitation, debility, decency, decorousness, decorum, decrepitude, delicate distinction, delicate health, delicateness, dessert, destructibility, detail, diaphanousness, differentia, differential, difficulty, dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, disintegration, distinction, doubtfulness, down, downiness, dubiousness, easiness, effeminacy, elegance, empathy, enervation, ethereality, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, excellence, exhaustion, exiguity, exiguousness, exility, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, feast, featheriness, feebleness, feel, feeling, fewness, fidelity, filminess, fine palate, fine point, fine-grainedness, fineness, finesse, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, fissility, flawlessness, flimsiness, floatability, flossiness, fluff, fluffiness, foaminess, fondness, fracturableness, fragility, frailness, frailty, frangibility, friability, frothiness, fussiness, fuzz, fuzziness, gauziness, gentleness, good taste, goody, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, hairline, hazardousness, healthlessness, heedfulness, helpfulness, human frailty, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, identification, ill health, impressionability, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indecisiveness, indulgence, infirmity, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insecurity, insignificance, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, insufficiency, invalidism, invalidity, irresolution, irritability, judiciousness, laciness, lack of weight, languishing, languishment, leniency, levitation, levity, lightness, literalism, literality, literalness, littleness, luxury, making distinctions, manna, margin, mathematical precision, meagerness, meanness, mellowness, meticulousness, mindfulness, minuteness, mistiness, moderateness, modesty, moral weakness, morbidezza, morbidity, morbidness, morsel, narrow margin, nectar, nervousness, nice distinction, niceness, niceness of distinction, nicety, nonresistiveness, nonrigidity, nuance, obligingness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, palate, paperiness, particle of difference, particularity, particularness, passibility, peach fuzz, peakedness, perceptiveness, perceptivity, perfection, perilousness, pettiness, photophobia, picayunishness, plushiness, point of difference, polish, poor health, precariousness, preciseness, precisianism, precision, prickliness, propriety, pubescence, pudency, pudicity, pulpiness, punctiliousness, punctuality, puniness, quality, rarity, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, regale, regard, regardfulness, responsiveness, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, riskiness, satin, satininess, savory, scantiness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, severity, shade of difference, shakiness, shame, sickliness, silk, silkiness, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, slipperiness, smallness, smoothness, softheartedness, softness, solicitousness, solicitude, sophistication, soreness, sponginess, strictness, subtility, subtle distinction, subtlety, supersensitivity, susceptibility, sweetmeat, sword of Damocles, tact, tactfulness, taste, tastefulness, tender feeling, tenderheartedness, tenderness, tenuity, tetchiness, textualism, the letter, thin skin, thinness, thought, thoughtfulness, ticklish business, ticklishness, tidbit, tininess, titbit, toleration, totteriness, touchiness, treat, triviality, uncertainty, undependability, unhealthiness, unheaviness, unimportance, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, unwholesomeness, vagueness, valetudinarianism, velleity, velvet, velvetiness, volatility, vulnerability, warm heart, warmheartedness, wasting, wateriness, weakliness, weakness, weightlessness, wide margin, wispiness, womanishness, yeastiness |
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