something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy. ... the quality of being easily broken or damaged; fragility. the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact: negotiations of great delicacy.

What delicacies mean?

1 : something pleasing to eat that is considered rare or luxurious considered caviar a delicacy. 2a : the quality or state of being dainty (see dainty entry 2 sense 2) : fineness lace of great delicacy the delicacy of a spider web.

What does delicacy mean in a person?

Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.