delicacy

n. நுண்ணயம், மென்னயம், பண்பு நயம், நயநாகரிகத்தன்மை, அருஞ்சுவைப் பொருள், நேர்த்தி, நடைநயம், உணர்ச்சி நயம், கூருணர்வு நலம், நுண்ணுணர்வுத்திறன், கருவிகலங்கள் வகையில் நுண்கூறுபாடுகளைக் காட்டும் அதிறம், மட்டுமீறிய கூருணர்வு, மிகச்சிறு ஊறுபாடும் தாங்க முடியாத நொய்மை, பிணி சிறிதும் தாங்கப்படா நிலை, பாதுகாக்கத்தக்க ஒரு நுண்ணலம்.

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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.