Noun

(en-noun)

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners

The bride was elegance personified.

Restraint and grace of style

The simple dress had a quiet elegance .

The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision

The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .

(countable) A refinement or luxury

* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation

, passage=Phineas Duge

Noun

(uncountable) The quality or fact of being subtle.

With all his usual subtlety , he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.

(countable) An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.

The subtleties of this overture are often overlooked.

(countable) An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.

At the king's coronation feast, several subtleties were served between main courses.