DELICACY
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delicacy is worth 16 points in the game of Scrabble
Definitions for the word, delicacy
(a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
(a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.
(a.) 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.
(a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
(a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.