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Niceness

//ˈnaɪsnɪs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Silliness; folly. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze wordnet
  3. 3
    Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness. countable, uncountable

    "He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse]."

  4. 4
    the quality of nice wordnet
  5. 5
    Shyness; reserve. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's."

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  1. 6
    a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage wordnet
  2. 7
    Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.) Unix, countable, uncountable

Etymology

From nice + -ness.

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