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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