subtleness

subtleness

noun

Definition of SUBTLENESS

skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means <the subtleness with which the boutique owner convinces you that you have to have that outrageously priced article of clothing>

Synonyms artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness

Related Words calculation, care, design; savvy, sharpness, shrewdness; cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness; ease, facility, finesse; deceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness