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Meaning of "indelicacy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDELICACY

indelicacy  [ɪnˈdelɪkəsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDELICACY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indelicacy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDELICACY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

indelicacy

Morality

Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" and those that are "bad". Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc., or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness" or "rightness." Immorality is the active opposition to morality, while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles. Moral philosophy includes moral ontology, or the origin of morals, as well as moral epistemology, or what we know about morals. Different systems of expressing morality have been proposed, including deontological ethical systems which adhere to a set of established rules, and normative ethical systems which consider the merits of actions themselves. An example of normative ethical philosophy is the Golden Rule which states that, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself."...

Definition of indelicacy in the English dictionary

The definition of indelicacy in the dictionary is rudeness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDELICACY


advocacy
ˈædvəkəsɪ
circussy
ˈsɜːkəsɪ
circusy
ˈsɜːkəsɪ
complicacy
ˈkɒmplɪkəsɪ
delicacy
ˈdɛlɪkəsɪ
efficacy
ˈɛfɪkəsɪ
graphicacy
ˈɡræfɪkəsɪ
hygrochasy
haɪˈɡrɒkəsɪ
inefficacy
ɪnˈɛfɪkəsɪ
intricacy
ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ
pervicacy
ˈpɜːvɪkəsɪ
prolificacy
prəˈlɪfɪkəsɪ
xerochasy
zɪˈrɒkəsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDELICACY

indefinite integral
indefinite pronoun
indefinitely
indefiniteness
indehiscence
indehiscent
indelibility
indelible
indelibleness
indelibly
indelicate
indelicately
indelicateness
indemnification
indemnified
indemnifier
indemnifies
indemnify
indemnities
indemnity

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDELICACY

adequacy
bureaucracy
conspiracy
democracy
diplomacy
fallacy
inaccuracy
intimacy
lacy
legacy
legitimacy
literacy
luminous efficacy
pharmacy
piracy
privacy
racy
self-advocacy
supremacy
Tracy

Synonyms and antonyms of indelicacy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDELICACY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «indelicacy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of indelicacy

Translation of «indelicacy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDELICACY

Find out the translation of indelicacy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indelicacy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indelicacy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

indelicacy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indelicacy
570 millions of speakers

English

indelicacy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेअदबी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخشونة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неделикатность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indelicadeza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অমার্জিত অবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indélicatesse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidaksempurnaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taktlosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

indelicacy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

indelicacy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indelicacy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không lịch sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாணம் அற்றது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविवेकीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nezaketsizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indelicatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

indelicacy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неделікатність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indelicacy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγένεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onkies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indelicacy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

taktløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indelicacy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDELICACY»

The term «indelicacy» is normally little used and occupies the 137.546 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of indelicacy
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDELICACY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indelicacy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indelicacy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indelicacy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDELICACY»

Discover the use of indelicacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indelicacy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Imposture exposed, in a few brief remarks on the ...
IMPOSTURE EXPOSED, *¥ BRIEF REMARKS OH TH» IRRELIGIOUSNESS, PROFANENESS, INDELICACY, VIRULENCE, AND VULGARITY Of certain Persons, who style Themselves ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEWERS BY JOSIAH HARD, ESQ.
Josiah Hard, 1801
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The Pamphleteer
the world, in respect of the indelicacy of the innocent sufferer, whether the indelicacy was, on the part of the perpetrator, wanton or necessary, or was the result of accident. A person would instinctively feel himself to he personally ahased, ...
Jan Glete, Thoemmes Press, 1994
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The Pamphleteer
the world, in respect of the indelicacy of the innocent sufferer, whether the indelicacy was, on the part of the perpetrator, wanton or necessary, or was the result of accident. A person would instinctively feel himself to be personally abased, ...
‎1826
4
The Pamphleteer
the world, in respect of the indelicacy of the innocent sufferer, whether the indelicacy was, on the part of the perpetrator, wanton or necessary, or was the result of accident. A person would instinctively feel himself to be personally abased, ...
Abraham John Valpy, 1827
5
Letters to the Bishop of Salisbury, occasioned by the ...
The Prophet Ezekiel is here charged with employing imagery, BORDERING ON INDELICACY. Indelicacy is a want of decency in word or deed, and is therefore inconsistent with true purity of heart and speech, and unfit for the eyes and ears of ...
Robert HALDANE (of Airthrey.), Samuel Charles WILKS, 1833
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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star
If there is indelicacy in women studying medicine along with men, there must be mure indelicacy in women being, even in the most specially female ailments, themselves dealt with by men. If it is indelicate in women to learn medicine through ...
‎1870
7
The Primitive Church Magazine
That much of this indelicacy is the fanlt of the translators, and not of the original poem. No one quality of the poem will more forcibly strike a reader of the original, who is capable of entering into the spirit of the age in which it was written, than ...
‎1854
8
English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
Indecency is less than immodesty, but more than indelicacy: they both respect the outward behaviour; but the former springs from illicit or uncurbed desire ; indelicacy from the want of education. It is a great indecency for a man to marry again ...
George Crabb, 1846
9
Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology: Volume ...
In the Humane Society's literature, even as mouth-to-mouth was being strongly recommended, the “indelicacy” of it was inevitably referred to: The blowinginto the mouth may, upon an emergency, answer . . . ; but the difficulty of getting people ...
Yoke-Sum Wong, Derek Sayer, 2009
10
Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and ...
The parody, the qui pro quo, is a curious one. The indelicacy of a man attending a woman in her lying-in is by necessity overlooked. The indelicacy of a woman attending with men in medical classes is made much of. Would it not be far better  ...
Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDELICACY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indelicacy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Top 10 women-driven comedies
Cody and Page approach the teenager's "delicate" condition with refreshing indelicacy and a bracing lack of shame as she navigates the ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
2
Phil Bowhay, Flashback: Flushing out the best family lines
Please excuse the indelicacy, but Good Grief! I think most of us have sayings that can make a point, however vague the point may be. One I use ... «Monterey County Herald, Jul 15»
3
Why Is Iran's Foreign Minister So Angry?
... dignity—and this isn't the first time Zarif has been accused of indelicacy. Yet it's only now that we're hearing just what Zarif is shouting about. «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
4
What Happened Miss Simone? - Film Review
8 / 10 "Mississippi goddam". Two words uttered, with pointed indelicacy, by Nina Simone in protest at the murder of black civil rights activist ... «NME.com, Jun 15»
5
Q&A: ABC must confront how out of touch it is from the mainstream
For all the indelicacy of the question coming from Abbott, his point cuts to the heart of the matter. The ABC should be on Australia's side. Instead ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
6
The American Values that Support Apartheid
Four years later Jimmy Carter committed a similar indelicacy with the very title of his bestseller, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” A wave of ... «Sudan Vision, Jun 15»
7
The Evil That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Israel's Apartheid
Four years later Jimmy Carter committed a similar indelicacy with the very title of his bestseller, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” A wave of ... «Truthdig, Jun 15»
8
Required Reading
Students emerge in this essay as oversensitive and overemotional beings who consider a “simple act of indelicacy” as “tantamount to physical ... «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
9
Welcome to the Age of Digital Imperialism
But this flaunting of flesh, the spokesman feared, might tempt others toward the same indelicacy. “We can only warn people to not take it up,” he ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
10
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me
... of some simple act of indelicacy that's considered tantamount to physical assault. As Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis writes, ... «Vox, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
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