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niceness

/ˈnaɪsnɪs/

niceness noun: silliness; folly.

Noun

niceness (countable and uncountable, plural nicenesses)

  1. (obsolete) Silliness; folly.
  2. Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
    • 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 […], →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) Shyness; reserve.
    • 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: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn...
  4. Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
  5. Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
  6. (Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)

niceness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

niceness in Tamil

நொய்ம்மை, வாகு, அவுசு

niceness in Urdu

باریک بینی, باریکی, خوبی, موشگافی, نفاست, نزاکت

niceness in Kannada

ಹಸನು, ತೆಳುಲು, ಚೊಕ್ಕ, ಅಣಿ

Forms of niceness

pluralnicenesses

Origin of niceness

From nice + -ness.

Words formed from niceness

Questions about niceness

What does niceness mean?
Niceness means silliness; folly.
What is niceness in Tamil?
Niceness in Tamil is நொய்ம்மை, வாகு, அவுசு. See Niceness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is niceness?
Niceness is a noun.
How do you pronounce niceness?
Niceness is pronounced /ˈnaɪsnɪs/.
What is the plural of niceness?
The plural of niceness is nicenesses.

Words near niceness in the dictionary

  1. Nicene Faith
  2. Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
  3. nicened
  4. nicened up
  5. Nicenes
  6. niceness
  7. nicenesses
  8. Nicenian
  9. Nicenians
  10. nicening
  11. nicening up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: niceness (page history and authors); niceness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); niceness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); niceness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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