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subtleties

/ˈsʌtəltiz/

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What does subtleties mean?

noun

  1. plural of subtlety

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/ˈsʌtəltiz/

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Unfortunately, the mind of the commentator has usually been directed towards such subtleties, rather than towards the expression of precise knowledge.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
The Schoolmen often bewildered themselves in their subtleties, and often delivered dogmas and systems that may astonish the common sense of unsophisticated understandings.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
More book examples (3)
One great advantage of this method is that theory cannot lose itself in abstruse disquisitions, subtleties, and chimeras, but must always remain practical.
Carl von ClausewitzOn WarTranslated by J. J. (James John) GrahamProject Gutenberg ebook #1946
What was the use of all these subtleties, when, on coming out of school, a lad simply went back to his flock of sheep!
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
He had a relish for social subtleties and mysteries, and, in perception, when occasion offered him an inch he never failed to take an ell.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176