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Daintiness

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dain·ty  (dnt)
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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Noun1.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"


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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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