'Nicety' definitions:
Definition of 'nicety'
From: WordNet
noun
Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty" [syn: justness, rightness, nicety]
noun
A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [syn: nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement]
Definition of 'Nicety'
From: GCIDE
- Nicety \Ni"ce*ty\, n.; pl. Niceties. [OE. nicet['e] foolishness.]
- 1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). [1913 Webster]
- The miller smiled of her nicety. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction. [1913 Webster]
- The fineness and niceties of words. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- To a nicety, with great exactness or accuracy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nicety'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absoluteness,
- accuracy,
- acquired taste,
- appreciation,
- appreciation of differences,
- appreciation of excellence,
- appreciativeness,
- artistic judgment,
- attention to detail,
- attention to fact,
- care for truth,
- choiceness,
- circumstantiality,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- connoisseurship,
- conscientiousness,
- correctness,
- critical niceness,
- criticality,
- criticalness,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- daintiness,
- delicacy,
- delicate distinction,
- delicateness,
- detail,
- differentia,
- differential,
- discriminating taste,
- discriminatingness,
- discrimination,
- discriminativeness,
- distinction,
- elegance,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- excellence,
- exquisiteness,
- faithfulness,
- fastidiousness,
- faultlessness,
- feel,
- feeling,
- fidelity,
- fine palate,
- fine point,
- fineness,
- finesse,
- finicality,
- finicalness,
- finickiness,
- finickingness,
- flawlessness,
- fussiness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- hairline,
- judiciousness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- making distinctions,
- margin,
- mathematical precision,
- meticulousness,
- minuteness,
- narrow margin,
- nice distinction,
- niceness,
- niceness of distinction,
- nuance,
- palate,
- particle of difference,
- particularity,
- particularness,
- perfection,
- point of difference,
- polish,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- precision,
- punctiliousness,
- punctuality,
- quality,
- refined discrimination,
- refined palate,
- refinement,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- selectiveness,
- sense,
- sensibility,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- shade of difference,
- sophistication,
- strictness,
- subtle distinction,
- subtlety,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- wide margin