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say it: NOO-ahns
nuance is a noun meaning "a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude". It is pronounced /ˈnuɑns/ — NOO-ahns. It carries one recorded sense.
a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
“without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor”
“don't argue about shades of meaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nuance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.