Raffinesse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- finesse noun Skilful and delicate handling of a difficult or sensitive situation.
- ingenuity noun Skill at inventing clever solutions to problems.
- sleight noun Skillful, quick trickery, especially in performing a deceptive feat with the hands.
- sophistication noun Refined taste, worldly knowledge, or cultured elegance.
- subtlety noun The quality of being delicate, faint, or not obvious.
Senses
Raffinesse is used for these senses in English:
- finesse (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520]
- ingenuity The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.
- sleight Cunning; craft; artful practice.
- sophistication Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- sophistication Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- subtlety The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out. (of things)
finesse — full definition
- noun Skilful and delicate handling of a difficult or sensitive situation.
- verb To handle a tricky situation cleverly or skilfully, often to get around a problem.