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- delicacy noun (POLITENESS) [ U ] acting and speaking carefully so that no one is offended, or the possibility of causing offence:
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The meaning of DELICACY is something pleasing to eat that is considered rare or luxurious. How to use delicacy in a sentence.
Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.
the special care needed to deal with something in order to avoid causing trouble or offense; the quality of needing this special care: We need to discuss a matter of some delicacy. (Definition of delicacy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact: negotiations of great delicacy. extreme sensitivity; precision of action or operation; minute accuracy: the delicacy of a skillful surgeon's touch; a watch mechanism of unusual delicacy.
- [uncountable] the fact of being, or appearing to be, easy to damage or break. the delicacy of the fabric. Her skin had the delicacy of a flower. Extra Examples.
- [uncountable] the quality of being done carefully and gently. the delicacy of his touch. These objects are very old and should be treated with great delicacy.
- [uncountable] very careful behaviour in a difficult situation so that nobody is offended synonym tact. She handled the situation with great sensitivity and delicacy.
- [uncountable] the fact that a situation is difficult and somebody may be easily offended. I need to talk to you about a matter of some delicacy. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjective.
There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun delicacy, eight of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.
