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countable and uncountable, plural nicenesses
(obsolete) Silliness; folly.
Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness. quotations examples
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].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
(obsolete) Shyness; reserve. quotations
Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]
Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity. examples
Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness. examples
(computing, Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.) examples