Usually means: Subtle distinction in meaning, expression.
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  1. nuance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nuance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nuance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nuance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nuance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nuance, nuance: Wordnik
  7. nuance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nuance: Wiktionary
  9. nuance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nuance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nuance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nuance: Dictionary.com
  13. nuance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nuance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nuance (American band), Nuance (Canadian band), Nuance (band), Nuance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nuance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nuance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nuance: Rhymezone
  19. Nuance, nuance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nuance: Free Dictionary
  21. nuance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nuance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. nuance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NUANCE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A minor distinction.
noun:  Subtlety or fine detail.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.

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