delicacy vs excess

delicacy

noun
  • Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement. 

  • The quality of being delicate. 

  • Refinement in taste or discrimination. 

  • Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. 

  • Tact and propriety; the need for such tact. 

  • Frailty of health or fitness. 

excess

adj
  • More than is normal, necessary or specified. 

noun
  • An act of eating or drinking more than enough. 

  • Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle. 

  • The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. 

  • The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper. 

  • A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim. 

verb
  • To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work. 

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