1. the quality of being delicate.
2. something pleasing and appealing, especially a choice food.
3. fineness of appearance, construction, or execution; elegance: brushwork of great delicacy.
4. frailty of bodily constitution or health.
5. sensitivity of perception, discrimination, or taste; refinement.
6. sensitivity to the feelings of others; tact: phrased the apology with delicacy.
7. sensitivity to what is proper; propriety.
8. undue sensitivity to or concern with what may be considered offensive or improper; squeamishness: scenes that might offend a viewer's delicacy.
9. the need for tact in treatment or handling: a topic of some delicacy.
10. sensitivity to very small changes; precision: the delicacy of a set of scales.

1. the quality of being delicate.
2. something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a chinese delicacy
3. fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
4. frailty of health or fitness.
5. refinement in taste or discrimination.
6. tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

1. the state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness.
2. nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness
3. nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy
4. addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
5. nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
6. the state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness.
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.
8. pleasure; gratification; delight.

1. the quality of being delicate; that which is delicate. specifically
2. exquisite agreeable-ness to the sense of taste or some other sense; refined pleasantness; daintiness: as, delicacy of flavor or of odor.
3. something that delights the senses, particularly the sense of taste; a dainty: as, the delicacies of the table.
4. pleasing fineness or refinement of detail; minute perfection in any characteristic quality, as form, texture, tint, tenuity, finish, adjustment, etc.: as, the delicacy of the skin or of a fabric; delicacy of contour; the delicacy of a thread or of a watch-spring.
5. that which is refined or the result of refinement, especially of the senses; a refinement.
6. niceness; criticalness; equivocalness; the condition of requiring care or caution: as, the delicacy of a point or question; the delicacy of a surgical operation.
7. nicety of perception; exquisite sensitiveness or acuteness, physical or mental; exquisiteness; fineness: as, delicacy of touch or of observation; delicacy of wit.
8. acute or nice discrimination as to what is pleasing or unpleasing; hence, a refined perception of beauty and deformity, or the faculty of such perception; critical refinement of taste; fastidiousness.
9. civility or politeness proceeding from a nice observance of propriety; the quality manifested in care to avoid offense or what may cause distress or embarrassment; freedom from grossness. as, delicacy of behavior or feeling.
10. sensitive reluctance; modest or considerate hesitation; timidity or diffidence due to refined feeling: as, I feel a great delicacy in approaching such a subject.
11. tenderness, as of the constitution; susceptibility to disease; physical sensitiveness.
12. the quality of being addicted to pleasure; voluptuousness of life; luxuriousness.
13. pleasure; a diversion; a luxury.
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1. something considered choice to eat
2. smallness of stature
3. the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
4. subtly skillful handling of a situation
5. lack of physical strength
6. refined taste; tact
7. lightness in movement or manner