niceness

2 definitions found

niceness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Niceness \Nice"ness\, n.
     Quality or state of being nice.
     [1913 Webster]

niceness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  niceness
      n 1: a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
           [syn: politeness, niceness] [ant: impoliteness]
      2: the quality of nice [ant: nastiness]
      3: the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had
         to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew" [syn:
         subtlety, niceness]