Subtlety Definition

sŭtl-tē
subtleties
noun
subtleties
The quality or condition of being subtle; esp., the ability or tendency to make fine distinctions.
Webster's New World
Something subtle; esp., a fine distinction.
Webster's New World
(countable) An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.
At the king's coronation feast, several subtleties were served between main courses.
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subtlety
Plural:
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Origin of Subtlety

  • From Old French sutilté, from Latin subtÄ«litās, from subtÄ«lis (“subtle").

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Subtlety Sentence Examples

  • It is, in fact, important rather as a rhetorcial subtlety than as a serious argu ment.

  • He preferred the direct approach over any form of subtlety.

  • With perfect subtlety Bonaparte worked on the feelings of all and kept his own intentions secret.

  • No amount of subtlety will remove the difference between a categorical judgment of existence, e.g.

  • It is compelled to accept its first principles on trust from the science in which it is employed; it cannot cope with the subtlety of nature; and it is radically vitiated by being founded on hastily and inaccurately abstracted notions of things.

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