Nicety

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  • noun. The quality of showing or requiring careful, precise treatment.
  • noun. Delicacy of character or feeling; fastidiousness; scrupulousness.
  • noun. A fine point, small detail, or subtle distinction.
  • noun. An elegant or refined feature; an amenity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Ignorance; folly; foolishness; triviality.
  • noun. Fastidiousness; extreme or excessive delicacy; squeamishness.
  • noun. Nice discrimination; delicacy of perception; acuteness.
  • noun. A nice distinction; a refinement; a subtlety; a fine-drawn point or criticism.
  • noun. Delicacy; exactness; accuracy; precision.
  • noun. A dainty or delicacy; something rare or choice: usually in the plural.
  • noun. Nice appearance; agreeableness of appearance
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
  • noun. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.
  • noun. A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction.
  • noun. with great exactness or accuracy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small detail that is nice or polite to have but isn't necessary.
  • noun. Subtlety or precision of use.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
  • noun. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  • Word Usage
    "That kind of diplomatic nicety from the Russians was so surprising that Clay immediately sent a “Confidential” cable to Washington saying: “Soviet courtesy of this type is so unusual that I attach significance to it as a possible preliminary move to a settlement which would be intended to prevent West German government.”"
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