Flavour vs Delicacy - What's the difference?
flavour | delicacy |
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
The characteristic quality of something.
(informal) A kind or type.
(physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
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.
As nouns the difference between flavour and delicacy
is that flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect while delicacy is the quality of being delicate.As a verb flavour
is to add flavouring to something.flavour
English
(wikipedia flavour)Alternative forms
* flavor (American spelling)Noun
(en noun)- The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavour was added to the pudding.
- What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- the flavour of an experience
- Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
- the flavour of a rose