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DELICACY
airiness, delicacy
(noun) lightness in movement or manner
daintiness, delicacy, fineness
(noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; “the daintiness of her touch”; “the fineness of her features”
delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness, finesse
(noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation
fragility, delicacy
(noun) lack of physical strength
delicacy, slightness
(noun) smallness of stature
delicacy, discretion
(noun) refined taste; tact
dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
(noun) something considered choice to eat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
delicacy (countable and uncountable, plural delicacies)
The quality of being delicate.
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
Frailty of health or fitness.
Refinement in taste or discrimination.
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
Source: Wiktionary
Del"i*ca*cy, n.; pl. Delicacies. Etym: [From Delicate, a.]
1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.
2. 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.
3. 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. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cowper.
4. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.
5. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England. Macaulay.
6. The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
7. 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. The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Rev. xviii. 3.
8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.] He Rome brent for his delicacie. Chaucer.
Syn.
– See Dainty.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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