Difference between Delicacy and Goody

What is the difference between Delicacy and Goody?

Delicacy as a noun is the quality of being delicate. while Goody as a noun is a small amount of something good to eat

Delicacy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality of being delicate. Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. Frailty of health or fitness. Refinement in taste or discrimination. Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

Example sentence: The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

Goody

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: used to indicate pleasure or delight

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small amount of something good to eatAny small, usually free, item.shortening of goodwife, a 17th century puritan honorific.

We hope you now know whether to use Delicacy or Goody in your sentence.

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