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daintiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun daintiness has 1 sense
- daintiness(n = noun.attribute) delicacy, fineness - the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" is a kind of elegance
Derived form adjective dainty2
THESAURUS
daintiness
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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