Delicacy
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
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.
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.
Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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.
Pleasure; gratification; delight.
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Delicacy Quotations
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
James Broughton
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
George H. Mead
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Edward Thorndike
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
Elton Gallegly
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
Todd English
Delicacy Translations
delicacy in Afrikaans is lekkers
delicacy in Dutch is snoep, snoepgoed, lekkernij
delicacy in Italian is attenzione
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