Subtilty
[sʌbtəlti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
(n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.
(n.) Cunning; skill; craft.
(n.) Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rarity, thinness, etherealness, subtileness.[2]. Fineness, slenderness, exility.[3]. Refinement, extreme nicety.
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Examples
- But here I cannot forbear taking notice of a remarkable subtilty of the Roman law, in distinguishing betwixt confusion and commixtion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For subtilty of principle, impressiveness of action, and breadth of results, there is nothing comparable with it among mechanical agencies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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