nuance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː.ɑːns/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /njuː.ɒ̃(n)s/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈnju.ɑns/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈnuː.ɑns/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈnjʉː.ɐːns/
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• CMU ARPABET: N UW1 AA0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”). Omitting several steps, from Latin nūbēs. Compare typologically Italian sfumatura (< Latin fūmus).

112 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: նրբերանգ (nrberang) — minor distinction
• Armenian: նյուանս (nyuans) — minor distinction
• Azerbaijani: çalar — minor distinction
• Azerbaijani: incəlik — minor distinction
• Belarusian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — minor distinction
• Belarusian: адце́нне (adcjénnje) — minor distinction
• Bulgarian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — minor distinction
• Bulgarian: отте́нък (otténǎk) — minor distinction
• Catalan: matís — minor distinction
• Chinese Mandarin: 細微區別 /细微区别 (xìwēi qūbié) — minor distinction
• Chinese Mandarin: 小差異 /小差异 (xiǎo chāyì) — minor distinction
• Chinese Mandarin: 微小差別 /微小差别 (wēixiǎo chābié) — minor distinction
• Czech: jemný rozdíl — minor distinction
• Czech: nuance — minor distinction
• Danish: nuance — minor distinction
• Dutch: nuance — minor distinction
• Esperanto: nuanco — minor distinction
• Finnish: vivahde — minor distinction
• French: nuance — minor distinction
• French: détail — minor distinction
• Georgian: ნიუანსი (niuansi) — minor distinction
• German: Nuance — minor distinction
• Greek: υπαινιγμός (ypainigmós) — minor distinction
• Greek: υπονοούμενο (yponooúmeno) — minor distinction
• Hungarian: árnyalat — minor distinction
• Hungarian: nüánsz — minor distinction
• Indonesian: nuansa — minor distinction
• Italian: sfumatura — minor distinction
• Italian: dettaglio m sottigliezza — minor distinction
• Japanese: ニュアンス (nyuansu) — minor distinction
• Japanese: 意味合い (imiai) — minor distinction
• Korean: 뉘앙스 (nwiangseu) — minor distinction
• Norwegian Bokmål: nyanse — minor distinction
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nyanse — minor distinction
• Occitan: nuança — minor distinction
• Occitan: matís — minor distinction
• Pannonian Rusyn: ниянса (nijansa) — minor distinction
• Polish: niuans — minor distinction
• Portuguese: nuance — minor distinction
• Portuguese: nuança — minor distinction
• Portuguese: sutileza — minor distinction
• Portuguese: matiz — minor distinction
• Romanian: nuanță — minor distinction
• Romanian: nuanțe — minor distinction
• Russian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — minor distinction
• Russian: отте́нок (otténok) — minor distinction
• Spanish: matiz — minor distinction
• Spanish: prestancia — minor distinction
• Swedish: nyans — minor distinction
• Ukrainian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — minor distinction
• Ukrainian: відті́нок (vidtínok) — minor distinction
• Vietnamese: sắc thái — minor distinction
• Armenian: նրբերանգ (nrberang) — subtlety or fine detail
• Armenian: նյուանս (nyuans) — subtlety or fine detail
• Armenian: նրբություն (nrbutʻyun) — subtlety or fine detail
• Azerbaijani: çalar — subtlety or fine detail
• Azerbaijani: incəlik — subtlety or fine detail
• Catalan: matís — subtlety or fine detail
• Chinese Mandarin: 細膩 /细腻 (xìnì) — subtlety or fine detail
• Chinese Mandarin: 微妙 (wēimiào) — subtlety or fine detail
• Danish: nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• Dutch: nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• Dutch: subtiliteit — subtlety or fine detail
• Esperanto: nuanco — subtlety or fine detail
• Finnish: nyanssi — subtlety or fine detail
• Finnish: vivahde — subtlety or fine detail
• French: nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• French: subtilité — subtlety or fine detail
• Georgian: ნიუანსი (niuansi) — subtlety or fine detail
• German: Nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• Greek: υπαινιγμός (ypainigmós) — subtlety or fine detail
• Greek: υπονοούμενο (yponooúmeno) — subtlety or fine detail
• Indonesian: nuansa — subtlety or fine detail
• Italian: sottigliezza — subtlety or fine detail
• Japanese: ニュアンス (nyuansu) — subtlety or fine detail
• Japanese: 詳細 (shōsai) — subtlety or fine detail
• Pannonian Rusyn: ниянса (nijansa) — subtlety or fine detail
• Persian: ظرافت (zerâfat) — subtlety or fine detail
• Persian: ریزهکاری (rize-kâri) — subtlety or fine detail
• Polish: niuans — subtlety or fine detail
• Polish: subtelność — subtlety or fine detail
• Portuguese: nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• Portuguese: nuança — subtlety or fine detail
• Portuguese: subtil — subtlety or fine detail
• Russian: нюа́нс (njuáns) — subtlety or fine detail
• Russian: то́нкость (tónkostʹ) — subtlety or fine detail
• Serbo-Croatian: nuance — subtlety or fine detail
• Serbo-Croatian: osjetljivost — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: matiz — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: cariz — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: pormenor — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: detalle — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: sutileza — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: sutilidad — subtlety or fine detail
• Spanish: flexibilidad — subtlety or fine detail
• Swedish: nyans — subtlety or fine detail
• Turkish: nükte — subtlety or fine detail
• Belarusian: нюансава́ць (njuansavácʹ) — to apply a nuance to
• Chinese Mandarin: 添加細微差別 /添加细微差别 (tiānjiā xìwēi chābié) — to apply a nuance to
• Chinese Mandarin: 微妙地改變 /微妙地改变 (wēimiào de gǎibiàn) — to apply a nuance to
• Chinese Mandarin: 細緻調整 /细致调整 (xìzhì tiáozhěng) — to apply a nuance to
• Dutch: nuanceren — to apply a nuance to
• Finnish: nyansoida — to apply a nuance to
• French: détailler — to apply a nuance to
• German: nuancieren — to apply a nuance to
• Italian: dettagliare — to apply a nuance to
• Polish: niuansować — to apply a nuance to
• Polish: zniuansować — to apply a nuance to
• Russian: нюанси́ровать (njuansírovatʹ) — to apply a nuance to
• Spanish: matizar — to apply a nuance to
• Spanish: detallar — to apply a nuance to
• Ukrainian: нюансува́ти (njuansuváty) — to apply a nuance to