Nuances
[noo-ahns, nyoo-, noo-ahns, nyoo-; French ny-ahns] /ˈnu ɑns, ˈnyu-, nuˈɑns, nyu-; French nüˈɑ̃s/
noun, plural nuances
[noo-ahn-siz, nyoo-, noo-ahn-siz, nyoo-; French ny-ahns] /ˈnu ɑn sɪz, ˈnyu-, nuˈɑn sɪz, nyu-; French nüˈɑ̃s/ (Show IPA)
1.
a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
2.
a very slight difference or variation in color or tone.
/njuːˈɑːns; ˈnjuːɑːns/
noun
1.
a subtle difference in colour, meaning, tone, etc; a shade or graduation
verb (transitive; passive)
2.
to give subtle differences to: carefully nuanced words
n.
1781, from French nuance “slight difference, shade of color” (17c.), from nuer “to shade,” from nue “cloud,” from Gallo-Romance *nuba, from Latin nubes “a cloud, mist, vapor,” from PIE *sneudh- “fog” (cf. 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.”
v.
1886, from nuance (n.). Related: Nuanced.
nuance [(nooh-ahns)]
A fine shade of meaning: “I liked the film, but I know I missed some of its nuances.”
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