Subtlety

Noun

 * 1)  The quality or fact of being subtle.
 * With all his usual subtlety, he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.
 * 1)  An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
 * The subtleties of this overture are often overlooked.
 * 1)  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.

Adjectives for Subtlety
ceremonious; absurd; obvious; airy; delicate; hidden; natural; shadowy; time-woven.

Verbs for Subtlety
bare—; comprehend—; discern—; enlighten —; interpret—; mask in—; pierce—; see through—; —beguiles; —cloaks; —curtails; —deludes; —disguises; —hints; —misleads; ——obscures; —pervades;  —prompts;  — screens; —shrouds; —suggests; —veils.

Thesaurus
Italian hand, absoluteness, accuracy, acquired taste, acuteness, airiness, airy nothing, animal cunning, apparent soundness, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence, appreciativeness, art, artfulness, artifice, artistic judgment, astuteness, attention to detail, attention to fact, bodilessness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, care for truth, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, circumstantiality, civilized taste, civilizedness, cleverness, complexity, complexness, complication, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, convolution, correctness, crabbedness, craft, craftiness, critical niceness, criticality, criticalness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, cunning, cunningness, daintiness, deceptiveness, delicacy, delicate distinction, detail, deviousness, differentia, differential, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, disingenuousness, distinction, distortion, elegance, entanglement, equivocalness, equivocation, ethereality, evasive reasoning, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, excellence, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness, faultlessness, feel, feeling, fidelity, fine Italian hand, fine palate, fine point, fineness, finesse, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, flimsiness, foxiness, fussiness, gamesmanship, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, guile, guilefulness, hairline, immateriality, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, ingeniousness, insidiousness, insincerity, insolidity, insubstantiality, intangibility, intricacy, intricateness, inventiveness, involution, involvement, jesuitism, jesuitry, judiciousness, literalism, literality, literalness, low cunning, making distinctions, margin, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, misapplication, mistiness, mystification, narrow margin, nice distinction, niceness, niceness of distinction, nicety, nuance, obfuscation, obscurantism, one-upmanship, oversubtlety, palate, particle of difference, particularity, particularness, pawkiness, perfection, perplexity, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, point of difference, polish, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, quality, ramification, rareness, rarity, rationalization, readiness, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, resourcefulness, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, satanic cunning, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, severity, shade of difference, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slightness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, stealth, stealthiness, strictness, subtility, subtilty, subtle distinction, subtleness, suppleness, tact, tactfulness, tanglement, taste, tastefulness, technicality, tenuity, tenuousness, textualism, the letter, thinness, treachery, trickiness, unconcreteness, unreality, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, vagueness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, wariness, wide margin, wiles, wiliness, wit

Etymology
From Old French sutilté, from subtīlitās < subtīlis "subtle".

Translations

 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 微妙 (びみょう, bimyō)
 * Polish: subtelność, delikatność


 * Russian: тонкость (tónkost’)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Polish: subtelność
 * Spanish:


 * Swedish: finess


 * French:


 * : subtilaje, subtileso (2)