Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excessive subtlety; over-nicety of discrimination.
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- noun extreme
subtlety
Etymologies
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super- + subtlety
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Examples
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At the time, however, Newmans treatment of the Articles seemed to display not only a perverted supersubtlety of intellect, but a temper of mind that was fundamentally dishonest.
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Corvick what he really considered he meant by his own supersubtlety, and, unmistakably kindled, he replied: "It isn't for the vulgar -- it isn't for the vulgar!"
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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I asked Corvick what he really considered he meant by his own supersubtlety, and, unmistakeably kindled, he replied: "It isn't for the vulgar -- it isn't for the vulgar!"
The Figure in the Carpet Henry James 1879
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