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niceness

/ˈnaɪsnɪs/

noun nicenesses

countable, obsolete, uncountable Silliness; folly.
countable, uncountable 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].
countable, obsolete, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
countable, uncountable Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
Unix, countable, uncountable A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)

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@misc{niceness_2026,
  title = {niceness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/niceness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}