Meaning of DAINTINESS
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" |
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| | Synonyms: | | delicacy, fineness |
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| | See Also: | | elegance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dain"ti*ness\, n.
The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance;
delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
The daintiness and niceness of our captains --Hakluyt.
More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . .
. than for the massiveness of the dish. --Hakewill.
The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot,
and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, --Sir H.
Wotton.
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| | Related Terms: | | acquired taste, airiness, amiable weakness, appreciation of excellence, ascent, asepsis, breakability, brittleness, bubbliness, buoyancy, changeableness, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, collapse, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, cunningness, cuteness, delicacy, delicateness, destructibility, diminutiveness, discrimination, disintegration, down, downiness, effeminacy, elegance, ethereality, excellence, exiguity, exiguousness, exquisiteness, fastidiousness, fewness, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, floatability, fluff, fluffiness, foaminess, fragility, frailty, frangibility, freshness, frothiness, fuzz, fuzziness, gentleness, good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, hospital cleanliness, human frailty, immaculacy, immaculateness, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indecisiveness, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insignificance, insufficiency, irresolution, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, moderateness, moral weakness, niceness, nicety, peach fuzz, pettiness, picayunishness, polish, pubescence, puniness, pureness, purity, quality, refinement, satin, satininess, scantiness, silk, silkiness, sleaziness, slightness, smallness, smoothness, softness, sophistication, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterility, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tenderness, tidiness, tininess, triviality, unheaviness, unimportance, unspottedness, unsubstantiality, velleity, velvet, velvetiness, volatility, weightlessness, whiteness, wispiness, womanishness, yeastiness |
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