NICENESS

subtlety, niceness

(noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; “you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew”

niceness

(noun) the quality of nice

politeness, niceness

(noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

niceness (countable and uncountable, plural nicenesses)

(obsolete) Silliness; folly. [16th c.]

Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness. [from 16th c.]

(obsolete) Shyness; reserve. [16th-19th c.]

Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity. [from 17th c.]

Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness. [from 19th c.]

(computing, Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice, renice.)

Anagrams

• incenses

Source: Wiktionary


Nice"ness, n.

Definition: Quality or state of being nice.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

12 January 2025

HABIT

(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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