Dictionary Definition
nicety
Noun
1 conformity with some esthetic standard of
correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and
beauty" [syn: justness,
rightness]
2 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, shade, subtlety, refinement]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A small detail that
is nice or polite to have but isn't necessary.
- We met the new captain while we were taking enemy fire and were unable to observe the niceties of formal introductions.
- Subtlety or precision of use.
- A rocket propelled grenade doesn't have the nicety of a sniper round, but you must admit its effectiveness.
Translations
small detail that is nice or polite but not
necessary
- Russian: деталь
subtlety or precision of use
- Russian: точность (tóčnost’)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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