Etymology
Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”).
Noun
nuance (countable and uncountable, plural nuances)
- A minor distinction.
hidden nuances
- Subtlety or fine detail.
- Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.
- 1901: Alpheus Spring Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution
- ...the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance), that the remarkable differences become obliterated...
Translations
minor distinction
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: նրբերանգ (hy) (nrberang), նյուանս (hy) (nyuans)
- Azerbaijani: çalar
- Belarusian: нюа́нс m (njuáns), адце́нне n (adcjénnje)
- Bulgarian: нюа́нс (bg) m (njuáns), отте́нък (bg) m (otténǎk)
- Catalan: matís (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: jemný rozdíl m, nuance (cs) f
- Danish: nuance c
- Dutch: nuance (nl) c
- Esperanto: nuanco
- Finnish: vivahde
- French: nuance (fr) f, détail (fr) m
- German: Nuance (de) f
- Greek: υπαινιγμός (el) m (ypainigmós), υπονοούμενο (el) n (yponooúmeno)
- Ancient: νύξις (el) f (nýxis)
- Hungarian: árnyalat (hu), nüánsz (hu)
- Indonesian: nuansa (id)
- Italian: sfumatura (it), dettaglio (it) m sottigliezza (it) f
- Japanese: ニュアンス (ja) (nyuansu), 意味合い (ja) (いみあい, imiai)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 뉘앙스 (ko) (nwiangseu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nyanse m
- Nynorsk: nyanse m
- Occitan: nuança (oc) f, matís m
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: niuans (pl) m
- Portuguese: nuance (pt) f, nuança (pt) f, sutileza (pt) f, matiz (pt) m
- Romanian: nuanță (ro) f, nuanțe f pl
- Russian: нюа́нс (ru) m (njuáns), отте́нок (ru) m (otténok) (of a color, tone or taste)
- Spanish: matiz (es) m, detalle (es) m, pormenor (es) m
- Swedish: nyans (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: нюа́нс m (njuáns), відті́нок m (vidtínok)
- Vietnamese: sắc thái (vi)
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subtlety or fine detail
- Armenian: նրբերանգ (hy) (nrberang), նյուանս (hy) (nyuans), նրբություն (hy) (nrbutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: çalar
- Catalan: matís (ca) m
- Dutch: nuance (nl) c, subtiliteit (nl) f
- Esperanto: nuanco
- Finnish: nyanssi (fi), vivahde
- French: nuance (fr) f, subtilité (fr) f
- German: Nuance (de) f
- Greek: υπαινιγμός (el) m (ypainigmós), υπονοούμενο (el) n (yponooúmeno)
- Ancient: νύξις (el) f (nýxis)
- Indonesian: nuansa (id)
- Italian: sottigliezza (it)
- Japanese: ニュアンス (ja) (nyuansu), 詳細 (ja) (しょうさい, shōsai)
- Persian: ظرافت (fa) (zerâfat), ریزهکاری (rize-kâri)
- Polish: niuans (pl) m, subtelność (pl) f
- Portuguese: nuance (pt) f, nuança (pt) f, subtil (pt)
- Russian: нюа́нс (ru) m (njuáns), то́нкость (ru) f (tónkostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: nuance f, osjetljivost (sh) f
- Spanish: matiz (es) m, pormenor (es) m
- Swedish: nyans (sv) c
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nyˈɑ̃sə/, /nyˈɑnsə/
- Hyphenation: nu‧an‧ce
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /nuˈɐ̃.si/ [nʊˈɐ̃.si], (faster pronunciation) /ˈnwɐ̃.si/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /nuˈɐ̃.si/ [nʊˈɐ̃.si], (faster pronunciation) /ˈnwɐ̃.si/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /nuˈɐ̃.se/ [nʊˈɐ̃.se], (faster pronunciation) /ˈnwɐ̃.se/