Meaning of Niceness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Silliness; folly.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
   countable, uncountable
3. Shyness; reserve.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
   countable, uncountable
5. Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
   countable, uncountable
6. A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
   Unix, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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].”

“Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.”

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