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Accuracy vs Delicacy - What's the difference?

accuracy | delicacy |

As nouns the difference between accuracy and delicacy

is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while delicacy is the quality of being delicate.

accuracy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(accuracies)
  • The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
  • Synonyms

    * correctness * truthfulness

    Antonyms

    * inaccuracy

    See also

    * precision * integrity * exactness * fidelity

    delicacy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia delicacy) (delicacies)
  • The quality of being delicate.
  • Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy
  • Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
  • Frailty of health or fitness.
  • Refinement in taste or discrimination.
  • Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.