daintiness

dain·ty (d

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adj. dain·ti·er, dain·ti·est

1. Delicately beautiful or charming; exquisite: "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year" (Walt Whitman).

2. Delicious or choice. See Synonyms at delicate.

3. Of refined taste; discriminating.

4. Overly fastidious; squeamish.

n. pl. dain·ties

Something delicious; a delicacy.

[Middle English deinte, excellent, excellence, from Old French deintie, from Latin dignits, from dignus, worthy; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

dainti·ly adv.

dainti·ness n.

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Noun

daintiness - the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"

delicacy, fineness

elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"

Translations

daintiness [ˈdeɪntɪnɪs] N [of person, hands, vase] → finura f, delicadeza f; [of steps] → elegancia f, delicadeza f; [of figure] → gracia f, delicadeza f

daintiness

n → Zierlichkeit f; (of movement, manners etc) → Anmutigkeit f, → Geziertheit f (pej)

daintiness [ˈdeɪntɪnɪs] n (of food, person) → delicatezza; (of gestures, manners) → grazia

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She had had the idea of giving it a certain daintiness, and she made much use of blue and red inks; she bound the copy in coarse paper, that looked vaguely like watered silk, in various pale colours; and she had acquired a reputation for neatness and accuracy.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

There was a smallness, a daintiness, a liveliness about Elizabeth that was almost irresistible.

Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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