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n. The quality of being delicate.

n. Something pleasing and appealing, especially a choice food.

n. Fineness of appearance, construction, or execution; elegance: brushwork of great delicacy.

n. Frailty of bodily constitution or health.

n. Sensitivity of perception, discrimination, or taste; refinement.

n. Sensitivity to the feelings of others; tact: phrased the apology with delicacy.

n. Sensitivity to what is proper; propriety.

n. Undue sensitivity to or concern with what may be considered offensive or improper; squeamishness: scenes that might offend a viewer's delicacy.

n. The need for tact in treatment or handling: a topic of some delicacy.

n. Sensitivity to very small changes; precision: the delicacy of a set of scales.

n. The quality of being delicate.

n. Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy

n. Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.

n. Frailty of health or fitness.

n. Refinement in taste or discrimination.

n. Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

n. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness.

n. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness

n. Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy

n. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.

n. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

n. The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness.

n. That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty.

n. Pleasure; gratification; delight.

n. The quality of being delicate; that which is delicate. Specifically

n. Exquisite agreeable-ness to the sense of taste or some other sense; refined pleasantness; daintiness: as, delicacy of flavor or of odor.

n. Something that delights the senses, particularly the sense of taste; a dainty: as, the delicacies of the table.

n. Pleasing fineness or refinement of detail; minute perfection in any characteristic quality, as form, texture, tint, tenuity, finish, adjustment, etc.: as, the delicacy of the skin or of a fabric; delicacy of contour; the delicacy of a thread or of a watch-spring.

n. That which is refined or the result of refinement, especially of the senses; a refinement.

n. Niceness; criticalness; equivocalness; the condition of requiring care or caution: as, the delicacy of a point or question; the delicacy of a surgical operation.

n. Nicety of perception; exquisite sensitiveness or acuteness, physical or mental; exquisiteness; fineness: as, delicacy of touch or of observation; delicacy of wit.

n. Acute or nice discrimination as to what is pleasing or unpleasing; hence, a refined perception of beauty and deformity, or the faculty of such perception; critical refinement of taste; fastidiousness.

n. Civility or politeness proceeding from a nice observance of propriety; the quality manifested in care to avoid offense or what may cause distress or embarrassment; freedom from grossness. as, delicacy of behavior or feeling.

n. Sensitive reluctance; modest or considerate hesitation; timidity or diffidence due to refined feeling: as, I feel a great delicacy in approaching such a subject.

n. Tenderness, as of the constitution; susceptibility to disease; physical sensitiveness.

n. The quality of being addicted to pleasure; voluptuousness of life; luxuriousness.

n. Pleasure; a diversion; a luxury.

n. Synonyms Daintiness, savoriness. Delicacy, Dainty, Tidbit. A delicacy is specifically something very choice for eating; it may be cooked, dressed, or in the natural state: as, his table was abundantly supplied with all the delicacies of the season; the appetite of the sick man had to be coaxed with delicacies. Dainty is a stronger word, indicating something even more choice. A tidbit is a particularly choice or delicious morsel, a small quantity taken from a larger on account of its excellence.

n. something considered choice to eat

n. smallness of stature

n. the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

n. subtly skillful handling of a situation

n. lack of physical strength

n. refined taste; tact

n. lightness in movement or manner

""Motives of delicacy, my dear Emilie," said Mrs. Somers, softening her tone, but still with an air of dissatisfaction -- "motives of delicacy, my dear Emilie, are mighty pretty sounding words; and at your age I used to think them mighty grand things; but I have long since found out that _motives of delicacy_ are usually the excuse of weak minds for not speaking the plain truth to their friends."

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delicate    delicatessen    delicious    delight   

dainty    delightfulness    softness    elegance    smoothness    tenderness    refinement    fastidiousness    luxury    daintiness   

tenderness    refinement    sweetness    modesty    simplicity    dignity    tact    softness    clearness    courtesy