Subtlety Synonyms

sŭtl-tē
A fine distinction
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. nuance
  2. nicety
  3. innuendo
  4. shade
  5. refinement
Delicacy
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. intricacy
  2. exquisiteness
  3. niceness
  4. elegance

Words Related to Subtlety

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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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