Crossword clues for nuance
nuance
- Subtle difference of meaning
- Shade that makes little difference
- Religious figure retaining a church distinction
- Refinement shown by sister touring a church
- Pest is abandoned in shade
- Delicate shade of difference
- Trace sister pinching a case of champagne
- Subtle shade
- Subtle variation
- Subtle aspect
- Something a broad outline lacks
- Easy-to-overlook detail
- Subtle meaning
- Meaning often missed
- It can be hard to detect
- Delicate variation
- Delicate shade of meaning
- Blanket statement's lack
- Ace nun (anag)
- Shade of meaning
- Subtlety
- Subtle distinction
- Shading
- Perceptive person's detection
- Careful writer's concern
- Small difference
- Fine point
- Fine distinction
- A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- Nicety
- Subtle distinction (6)
- Delicate difference
- Shade of difference
- Subtle shading
- Slight variation
- Annoying person is lacking subtlety
- Subtlety shown by woman of faith taking over a church
- Subtle shade of meaning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nuance \Nu`ance"\, n. [F.]
A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
A small difference in meaning, significance, or expression.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, from French nuance "slight difference, shade of color" (17c.), from nuer "to shade," from nue "cloud," from Gallo-Roman *nuba, from Latin nubes "a cloud, mist, vapor," from PIE *sneudh- "fog" (cognates: Avestan snaoda "clouds," Latin obnubere "to veil," Welsh nudd "fog," Greek nython, in Hesychius "dark, dusky"). According to Klein, a reference to "the different colors of the clouds."
1886, from nuance (n.). Related: Nuanced.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A minor distinction. 2 subtle or fine detail.
WordNet
n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [syn: nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement]
Wikipedia
Nuance is a small or subtle distinction. It can also refer to:
- Nuance (band), a 1980s dance music group
- Nuance Communications, a company that sells voice and productivity software
Nuance was an American dance music/ freestyle group. It was formed by the producer and arranger, Ron Dean Miller, and featured Vikki Love on vocals. They charted three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1980s, including " Loveride," which hit #1 in 1985. The same track peaked at #59 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1985.
Usage examples of "nuance".
Accustomed to reading nuances of speech and slight gestures of body language in order to survive with Amalgamated, Judit had picked up far more from that brief, inconclusive meeting than Viggers had actually said.
They were cold creatures, but her taste of the amber drink, of flying with the darkship, had sensitized her to subtle nuances.
Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face.
Methodical and routine but acutely sensitive to nuances at a scene, Hoey instinctively absorbed details.
Maria sensed that whether Gary had caught the nuance or not, Jake was advising them that if they wanted privacy for a period of time, neither he nor Lea would bother them.
If there were any loverlike nuances between Chessyre and Louisa, Stephen did not appear to notice them.
He had the look of a midlevel academic, perhaps one of those literary moles who compound their pallor in stuffy rooms, stroking the musaceous nuances of E.
The notationists say their number is potentially infinite, and this must be so, for reality itself may be sliced up, viewed, symbolized and reassembled into concepts of infinitely refined nuance and profundity.
English questioning, although Betsy would have said in expertise in a language should lead to vagueness and in exactitudes but Stefan had, with his direct and un nuanced questions, interrogated her thoroughly.
Ginger began to explain in that aggrieved National Public Radio hostess voice she employed when she was obliged, yet again, to set them all straight on still another nuanced and intricate aspect of the case she was constructing.
Rigidly perfect, but moldable to all the nuanced sworls of living ears.
Ogres hardly cared about the nuances of the lifestyles of nymphal creatures.
Mack continued, pretending to sort through the cobwebs of his mind for the correct point of departure, not only fully aware of exactly where he had left off but of the precise order and nuance of each word he was about to utter - written, rewritten, rehearsed, and performed for hours on end each night for the past month before the cracked mirror in his cheap roach-ridden flat on West 103rd Street.
He recognised the basic creakings, but the subtle nuances of the scranchings and the endulating shugs had him cocking his head upon one side.
And after sigling a book, Harman always found that some new data had arrived, but much of the meaning of the book had been lost due to absence of nuance and context.