Delicacy vs Decorum - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
* 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
(countable) A convention of social behavior
As nouns the difference between delicacy and decorum
is that delicacy is the quality of being delicate while decorum is decorum.delicacy
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- It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.