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Niceness

Niceness \Nice"ness\, n. Quality or state of being nice.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
niceness

1520s, "folly, foolish behavior," from nice + -ness. Meaning "exactness" is from 1670s; that of "pleasantness" is from 1809.

Wiktionary
niceness

n. 1 (context obsolete English) silliness; folly. (16th c.) 2 effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness. (from 16th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) shyness; reserve. (16th-19th c.) 4 fastidiousness; fine sensitivity. (from 17th c.) 5 pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness. (from 19th c.) 6 (context computing Unix English) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also (term: nice) (verb), (term: renice).)

WordNet
niceness
  1. n. a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage [syn: politeness] [ant: impoliteness]

  2. the quality of nice [ant: nastiness]

  3. the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew" [syn: subtlety]

Usage examples of "niceness".

North Carolinian believes in niceness as both a practice and a veil, as an expression of Christianity and democratic values, and as a disguise.

Some reasoned that niceness and forgivingness were evidently winning qualities, and they accordingly submitted nice, forgiving strategies.

As a result, he was the nicest man Lindsey had ever known, the nicest by light-years or by whatever measure niceness was calculated: bunches, bucketsful, gobs.

In order to express them with counters, we need to divide Cakes in THREE different ways, with regard to newness, to niceness, and to wholesomeness.

Her niceness and concern for other people that went with it had held great sway in her choice of counselling as a career.

Our American multicultures and countercultures are themselves hyperbolic fractal expansions of Disney's delirious embrace of sincerity and cleanliness and niceness and grotesque sentimentalism and white middle American hyperconformity.

Joe Newall was not popular in Castle Rock, partly because he made his money out of town, partly because Budreau, his predecessor, had been such an all-around nice fellow (though a fool, they always reminded each other, as if foolishness and niceness went together and it would be death to forget it), but mostly because his damned house was built with out-of-town labor.

The relative niceness of the morning had brought citizens, virtually house-bound for the past two weeks by the unstinting storms, out in droves, and the Steel Market was crowded with servants in livery, beggars in rags, students in their gray gowns, and bourgeois gentlemen in the familiar black, white ruffs of varying width and extravagance nodding like dandelion puffs around their strangulated throats.

As the whole point of this relationship was his niceness, any blemish would have meant that his untrustworthiness was so deeply ingrained as to be ungovernable.