GDict

niceness

naɪsnəs3 senses · 231 ms
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noun/ˈnaɪsnɪs/
  1. 1

    Silliness; folly.countableobsoleteuncountable

  2. 2

    Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.countableuncountable

    • 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].
  3. 3

    Shyness; reserve.countableobsoleteuncountable

    • Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
  4. 4

    Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.countableuncountable

  5. 5

    Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.countableuncountable

  6. 6

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

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