niceness

IPA: nˈaɪsnʌs

noun

  • (obsolete) Silliness; folly.
  • Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
  • (obsolete) Shyness; reserve.
  • Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
  • Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
  • (computing, Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
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Examples of "niceness" in Sentences

  • Generic niceness is a dangerous trait to give a character – particularly the protagonist.
  • As we scrolled through the list, we realized that almost all sales were based in "niceness."
  • I mean, Archie takes advantage of her "niceness" and eats her cakes and then leaves her to go on a date with Veronica.
  • This focus on "niceness" in critical approaches to young adult fiction -- a genre almost overwhelmingly produced and consumed by women -- is not accidental.
  • There are the softies in love with international law and international institutions, who hold that niceness is nice because it’s nice and the United States should be nicer.
  • Worcestershire, to be paternal to his workmen, to be known as Squire, and to bring his children up in the older Moreton 'niceness' -- he had yet managed to make his ploughs quite celebrated, to found a little town, and die still handsome and clean-shaved at the age of sixty-six.

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