<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural delicacies.</li><li>fineness of texture, quality, etc.; softness; daintiness: the delicacy of lace.</li><li>something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.</li><li>the quality of being easily broken or damaged; fragility.</li><li>the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact: negotiations of great delicacy.</li><li>extreme sensitivity; precision of action or operation; minute accuracy: the delicacy of a skillful surgeon's touch; a watch mechanism of unusual delicacy.</li><li>fineness of perception or feeling; sensitiveness: the delicacy of the pianist's playing.</li><li>fineness of feeling with regard to what is fitting, proper, etc.: Delicacy would not permit her to be rude.</li><li>sensitivity with regard to the feelings of others: She criticized him with such delicacy that he was not offended.</li><li>bodily weakness; liability to sickness; frailty.</li><li>Linguistics. (especially in systemic linguistics) the degree of minuteness pursued at a given stage of analysis in specifying distinctions in linguistic description.</li><li>Obsolete. sensuous indulgence; luxury.</li></ul>