Synonyms of the word

delicacy

• n. The quality of being delicate.
• n. Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting…
• n. Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
• n. Frailty of health or fitness.
• n. Refinement in taste or discrimination.
• n. Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

airiness

• n. The quality of being light or airy in quality or manner.
• n. insubstantiality.

aliment

• n. (now rare) Food.
• n. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
• n. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
• v. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
• v. To sustain, support.

alimentation

• n. feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities.

appreciation

• n. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
• n. Accurate perception; true estimation.
• n. A rise in value.

daintiness

• n. The characteristic of being dainty.
• n. A dainty behaviour or gesture.

dainty

• n. (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
• n. A delicacy.
• n. (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event…
• n. (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.
• adj. (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
• adj. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
• adj. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

diplomacy

• n. The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements…
• n. Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

discreetness

• n. The state or quality of being discreet.

discretion

• n. The quality of being discreet or circumspect.
• n. The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
• n. The freedom to make one's own judgements.

elegance

• n. Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
• n. Restraint and grace of style.
• n. The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
• n. (countable) A refinement or luxury.

fineness

• n. The quality or degree of being fine.
• n. The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
• n. The ratio of a ship's length to her beam.

finesse

• n. (uncountable) The property of having grace, elegance, skill, or balance.
• n. (uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.
• n. (countable) An adroit manoeuvre.
• n. (countable, bridge) A technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse (see noun sense above).
• v. (transitive) To handle or manage carefully or skillfully.
• v. (transitive) To evade.

fragility

• n. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
• n. Weakness; feebleness.
• n. (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

goody

• interj. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
• n. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
• n. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
• n. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
• n. (obsolete) goodwife, a 17th-century puritan honorific.
• n. (informal) Protagonist or hero.
• n. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

kickshaw

• n. A dainty or delicacy.
• n. A trinket or gewgaw.

life

• n. (uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such…
• n. Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
• n. (countable) The fact of a particular individual being alive; a living individual.
• n. Existence.
• n. A period of time during which something has existence.
• n. Animation; spirit; vivacity.
• n. A biography.
• n. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies.

littleness

• n. The property of being little, smallness.
• n. Smallness of spirit; pettiness.

liveliness

• n. The quality of being lively; animation; energy.

nourishment

• n. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished.
• n. Something that nourishes; food.

nutriment

• n. A source of nourishment; food.
• n. Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.

nutrition

• n. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

perceptiveness

• n. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight.

slightness

• n. The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness.

smallness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being small.

spirit

• n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
• n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
• n. Enthusiasm.
• n. The manner or style of something.
• n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
• n. Energy; ardour.
• n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
• n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
• n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
• n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
• n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
• n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
• n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
• v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
• v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

sprightliness

• n. The property of being sprightly.

sustenance

• n. Something that provides support or nourishment.

tact

• n. The sense of touch; feeling.
• n. (music) The stroke in beating time.
• n. Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating…
• n. The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will…
• n. (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or…
• v. (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

tactfulness

• n. The state or quality of being tactful.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

victuals

• n. plural of victual.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual.

weakness

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being weak.
• n. (countable) An inadequate quality; fault.
• n. (countable) A special fondness or desire.