delicacy

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The quality of being delicate
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact
Refinement in taste or discrimination
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance
Frailty of health or fitness
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy
that which is agreeable to a fine taste
{n} daintiness, nicety, softness, politeness
The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance
smallness of stature
If you say that a situation or problem is of some delicacy, you mean that it is difficult to handle and needs careful and sensitive treatment. There is a matter of some delicacy which I would like to discuss
the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
If someone handles a difficult situation with delicacy, they handle it very carefully, making sure that nobody is offended. Both countries are behaving with rare delicacy = sensitivity
Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful. the delicacy of a rose
A delicacy is a rare or expensive food that is considered especially nice to eat. Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy
lack of physical strength
Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy
refined taste; tact
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
subtly skillful handling of a situation
something considered choice to eat
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
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
lightness in movement or manner
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like
Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment
Pleasure; gratification; delight
subtly skillful handling of a situation smallness of stature refined taste; tact
{i} fragility, sensitivity; choice food
delicacies
plural of delicacy
delicacy
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