nuance
pronunciation
How to pronounce nuance in British English:
UK [ˈnjuːɑːns]
How to pronounce nuance in American English:
US [ˈnuːɑːns]
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- Noun:
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
Word Origin
- nuance (n.)
- 1781, from French nuance "slight difference, shade of color" (17c.), from nuer "to shade," from nue "cloud," from Gallo-Roman *nuba, from Latin nubes "a cloud, mist, vapor," from PIE *sneudh- "fog" (cognates: 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."
- nuance (v.)
- 1886, from nuance (n.). Related: Nuanced.
Example
- 1. There 's a nuance to relationships that 's hard to capture online .
- 2. To rely on an important-seeming analysis instead of drowning in the quagmire of nuance and incomplete information .
- 3. Some of those concepts will come back in much greater detail as I build up more context and nuance throughout the series .
- 4. But the results are far from perfect , and tend to miss the nuance of complex texts .
- 5. You spentsevenyears learning every little nuance of the fishing trade before you were granted the gift of learning from this great captain ?