Subtlety vs Intricacy - What's the difference?
subtlety | intricacy |
(uncountable) The quality or fact of being subtle.
(countable) An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
(countable) An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
That which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
As nouns the difference between subtlety and intricacy
is that subtlety is the quality or fact of being subtle while intricacy is the state or quality of being intricate or entangled.subtlety
English
(wikipedia subtlety)Noun
- With all his usual subtlety , he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.
- The subtleties of this overture are often overlooked.
- At the king's coronation feast, several subtleties were served between main courses.