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

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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

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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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