Subtilty

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  • n. Subtlety
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness.
  • n. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.
  • n. Cunning; skill; craft.
  • n. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or character of being subtile; thinness; fineness; tenuity: as, the subtilty of air or light; the subtilty of a spider's web. Also subtlety.
  • n. The practice of making fine-drawn distinctions; extreme niceness or refinement of discrimination; intricacy; complexity. Also subtlety.
  • n. Same as subtlety, 4.
  • n. Same as subtlety, 5.
  • n. Skill; skilfulness.
  • n. A delicacy; a carefully contrived dainty.
  • n. An intricate or curious device, symbol, or emblem.
  • Word Usage
    "That is the heart and soul of the Constitutional structure, and what makes it unique among such documents in the world, so much so that widely different minds, from Ho Chi Minh to Kurt Goedel, appreciated its cunning and structural subtilty."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    thinness    fineness    refinement    subtlety    cunning   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    subtlety    adroitness    nimbleness    minuteness    artifice