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delicacy

noun

1 delicacy

The quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance.

synonyms: daintiness, fineness.

Roget 704: difficulty; hardness etc. adj.; impracticability etc. (impossibility) 471; tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, ... show more

Roget 960: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity.    ... show more

Roget 939: probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness etc. adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi [Fr.], good faith, bona fides [Lat.]; purity, clean hands.    ... show more

Roget 845: beauty, the beautiful, to kalon [Gr.], le beau ideal.    [Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics.    [-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, ... show more

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Roget 494: fact, reality etc. (existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature etc. (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, ... show more

Roget 603: unwillingness etc. adj.; indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference ... show more

Dutch: lekkernij, gevoeligheid, tact, fijnzinnigheid, fijngevoeligheid, teerhheid

2 delicacy

Something considered choice to eat.

synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat.

Roget 394: savoriness etc. adj.; good taste, deliciousness, delectability.    relish, zest; appetizer.    tidbit, titbit, dainty, delicacy, ... show more

Roget 298: eating etc. v.; deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; gluttony etc. 957.    [eating specific foods] ... show more

Dutch: liflafje, heerlijkheden, heerlijkheid, lekkernij, lekkers, traktatie
Polish: przysmak

3 delicacy

Refined taste; tact.

synonym: discretion.

Polish: dyskrecja

4 delicacy

Smallness of stature.

synonym: slightness.

Polish: filigranowość

5 delicacy

Lack of physical strength.

synonym: fragility.

Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; ... show more

Polish: kruchość, wątłość

6 delicacy

Subtly skillful handling of a situation.

synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse.

Roget 850: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety etc. (discrimination) ... show more

Polish: finezyjność

7 delicacy

Lightness in movement or manner.

synonym: airiness.

Dutch: subtiliteit
Polish: miękkość


Moby thesaurus: absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence, appreciativeness, artistic judgment, ascent, attention to detail, attention to fact ... show more.

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