Niceness
['naɪsnɪs]
Definition
(n.) Quality or state of being nice.
Edited by Jason
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exactness, accuracy, precision, nicety.[2]. Scrupulousness, fastidiousness, delicacy, daintiness, squeamishness.
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Examples
- His host's contemptuous tribute to May's niceness was just what a husband should have wished to hear said of his wife. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I affect no niceness of conscience--I have not found any nice standards necessary yet to measure your actions by, sir. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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