Synonyms for delicateness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : del-i-kit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛl ɪ kɪt |
Définition of delicateness
Origin :- late 14c., "self-indulgent, loving ease; delightful; sensitive, easily hurt; feeble," from Latin delicatus "alluring, delightful, dainty," also "addicted to pleasure, luxurious, effeminate;" of uncertain origin; related by folk etymology (and perhaps genuinely) to deliciae "a pet," and delicere "to allure, entice" (see delicious). Meaning "easily broken" is recorded from 1560s.
- noun frailness
- Very nervous persons develop a delicateness and acuteness of smell which other persons do not even imagine.
- Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
- The others had all been women—womanly women, full of the weakness, the delicateness rather, that distinguishes the feminine.
- Extract from : « The Grain Of Dust » by David Graham Phillips
- And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.
- Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various
- For a Kate of the Black Eyebrows in the plot makes many a mighty difference to the delicateness of a man's stomach.
- Extract from : « The Men of the Moss-Hags » by S. R. Crockett
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