Diplomacy

Quick meaning: Diplomacy is a noun meaning Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.

Meaning

Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.

More Meanings

1. The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.

Example Sentences

National diplomacy typically deploys its dexterity to secure advantage for one's nation.

As I was talking with many relatives I have in this town I got assaulted with intense probing of whom I was married to, then who is your girlfriend, then it was what do you do for a job? Most of these relatives don't know I'm gay and deflecting these questions put to the test the art of diplomacy.

Word Forms

• diplomacies

Synonyms for diplomacy

Depending on context, synonyms include statesmanship, statecraft, finesse, delicacy, discreetness.

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