DELICACY
\dˈɛlɪkəsi], \dˈɛlɪkəsi], \d_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_k_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of DELICACY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
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subtly skillful handling of a situation
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smallness of stature
By Princeton University
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the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
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subtly skillful handling of a situation
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smallness of stature
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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Pleasure; gratification; delight.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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Pleasure; gratification; delight.
By Noah Webster.
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The state or quality of being agreeable to the taste or other senses; a luxury; grace; sensitiveness; refinement; sensibility; consideration for the feelings of others; sensitiveness to disease.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Fineness; daintiness; sensitiveness; fragility.
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A luxury; dainty.
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Refinement; fastidiousness; nicety.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] State of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses;—fineness of form, texture, or constitution; hence, frailty or weakness;—propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; hence, effeminacy;—addiction to pleasure; self-indulgence;—refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness;—something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty.
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Daintiness, niceness in eating; any thing highly pleasing to the senses; softness; nicety; politeness; indulgence; tenderness, scrupulousness; weakness of constitution.
By Thomas Sheridan
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