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Definition of Delicacy

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. Related Definitions: Accuracy, Action, Addiction, Affected, Agreeableness, Alluring, An, And, As, Balance, Behavior, Being, By, Character, Chemist, Condition, Conduct, Constitution, Critical, Daintiness, Dainty, Delicacies, Delicacy, Delicate, Delight, Discrimination, Doing, Earnest, Effeminacy, Elegance, Especially, Exaggerated, Fastidious, Feeling, Fiber, Fineness, Flavor, For, Form, Frailty, Frame, Gratification, Great, Hand, Hence, Human, In, Indulgence, Is, Kindness, Like, Luxurious, Luxury, Nice, Niceness, Nicety, Odor, Of, Or, Perception, Pleasant, Pleasure, Propriety, Refined, Refinement, Sense, Skin, Slight, Smoothness, Softness, Something, State, Susceptibility, Table, Taste, Tenderness, Texture, That, The, Thread, To, Treatment, Voluptuous, Weakness, Which

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 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 The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. Gustav Mahler

Delicacy Translations delicacy in Afrikaans is lekkers delicacy in Dutch is snoep, snoepgoed, lekkernij delicacy in Italian is attenzione

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