delicadeza

delicadeza
feminine noun
1care (miramiento) (con cosas); kindness, attentiveness (con personas)
  • le dio la noticia con delicadeza -> he broke the news to her tactfully
2delicacy (finura) (de perfume, rostro); sensitivity (de persona)
3delicacy (de un asunto, situación)

delicadeza [day-le-cah-day'-thah]
noun
1Delicateness, tenderness, softness, effeminacy; nicety, exquisiteness. (f)
2Delicacy, nicety in the choice of food, daintiness. (f)
3Subtlety, dexterity. (f)
4Fineness, tenuity. (f)
5Acuteness of understanding, refinement of wit; perspicacity; curiosity; mellifluence. (Metaphorical) (f)
6Idleness, negligence. (f)

delicadeza
sustantivo:femenino
1 (suavidad) [de tejido, piel] softness; [de tela] fineness; [de color] softness
2 (cuidado) gentleness
la delicadeza con que transportó al enfermo the gentleness with which she moved the patient; con mucha delicadeza very gently
3 (amabilidad)
tuvo la delicadeza de ayudarme a bajar he was kind enough to help me down; he did me the kindness of helping me down; no tuvo la delicadeza de comunicárnoslo he didn't have the decency to let us know
4 (tacto) tact; delicacy
tuvo mucha delicadeza al presentar su queja she made the complaint very tactfully with great tact with great delicacy;oo tendrás que presentar la queja con mucha delicadeza you will have to make the complaint very tactfully delicately;o falta de delicadeza tactlessness; indelicacy
5 (dificultad) delicacy; delicate nature
no comprendió la delicadeza de la situación he did not understand the delicacy delicate nature of the situation;o
6 (finura) [de rasgos] delicacy
la delicadeza con que ejecutó la pieza the delicacy with which she performed the piece; describió la delicadeza del ambiente de palacio she described the refined atmosphere at the palace; me enamoró la delicadeza de sus modales I fell in love with his exquisite manners
7 (sensibilidad excesiva) hypersensitiveness