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subtleties
/ˈsʌtəltiz/
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What does subtleties mean?
noun
- plural of subtlety
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IPA pronunciation
/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.
The Schoolmen often bewildered themselves in their subtleties, and often delivered dogmas and systems that may astonish the common sense of unsophisticated understandings.
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One great advantage of this method is that theory cannot lose itself in abstruse disquisitions, subtleties, and chimeras, but must always remain practical.
What was the use of all these subtleties, when, on coming out of school, a lad simply went back to his flock of sheep!
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.