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Exquisiteness

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ex·qui·site  (kskw-zt, k-skwzt)
adj.
1. Characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution: an exquisite chalice.
2. Of such beauty or delicacy as to arouse intense delight: an exquisite sunset. See Synonyms at delicate.
3. Excellent; flawless: plays the piano with exquisite technique.
4. Acutely perceptive or discriminating: "Blind dolphins have been known to survive in the wild, guided by exquisite acoustic images of their prey" (Kenneth Browser).
5. Intense; keen: suffered exquisite pain.
6. Obsolete Ingeniously devised or thought out.
n.
One who is excessively fastidious in dress, manners, or taste.
[Middle English exquisit, carefully chosen, from Latin exqustus, past participle of exqurere, to search out : ex-, ex- + quaerere, to seek.]
exqui·site·ly adv.
exqui·site·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.exquisiteness - extreme beauty of a delicate sort
beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses


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The virtues of the Classical are exquisiteness and incisive significance; of the Romantic, richness and splendor.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Tarzan could not hope to make the man suffer as he had suffered, since physical pain may never approach the exquisiteness of mental torture.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The spangled heavens should be used as a pattern and with a view to that higher knowledge; their beauty is like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought by the hand of Daedalus, or some other great artist, which we may chance to behold; any geometrician who saw them would appreciate the exquisiteness of their workmanship, but he would never dream of thinking that in them he could find the true equal or the true double, or the truth of any other proportion.
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