delicacy vs understanding

delicacy

noun
  • Refinement in taste or discrimination. 

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

  • The quality of being delicate. 

  • Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. 

  • Tact and propriety; the need for such tact. 

  • Frailty of health or fitness. 

understanding

noun
  • A reconciliation of differences. 

  • Opinion, judgement or outlook. 

  • An informal contract; mutual agreement. 

  • The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment. 

  • Sympathy. 

  • Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 

adj
  • Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance. 

How often have the words delicacy and understanding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )