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nicenesses

nicenesses is the plural of niceness.

Meaning of niceness

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.)

Questions about nicenesses

What is nicenesses the plural of?
Nicenesses is the plural of niceness.

Words near nicenesses in the dictionary

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

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