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delicateness

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Example Sentences

Very nervous persons develop a delicateness and acuteness of smell which other persons do not even imagine.

The others had all been women—womanly women, full of the weakness, the delicateness rather, that distinguishes the feminine.

And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.

Along the sides, the intricate carving was beautiful in its lacy delicateness.

For a Kate of the Black Eyebrows in the plot makes many a mighty difference to the delicateness of a man's stomach.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to delicateness, such as: debility, decrepitude, delicacy, feebleness, fragileness, and fragility.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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