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Definition: NICETIES |
NICETIESPlural1. Of Nicety |
Date "NICETIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Crosswords: NICETIES |
| Specialty definitions using "NICETIES": Multitudes. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "NICETIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NICETIES" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 132 | 27,743 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "NICETIES": the niceties of ♦ the niceties of life ♦ the niceties of the language. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "NICETIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hollësira (minutiae, nicety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тънкости, тънки различия, подробности (minuteness, particulars, specialities, specification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 美好 (Niceness, Nicety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přesnost (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, minuteness, nicety, precision, punctuality, rightness, strictness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | raffinements. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Feinheiten (acutenesses, nicety, subtleties). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | apró örömök. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | munizie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 機微 (delicate signs, inner workings, subtlety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きび (20th of the sexagenary cycle, delicate signs, inner workings, leader, millet, subtlety, tail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icetiesnay subtilitãţile limbii (the niceties of the language). (various references) тонкости. (various references) političko sitničarenje, cepidlačenje (cavil, hairsplitting, logomachy, pedantry, quibble). (various references) spetsfundigheter (quibbling), finesser (features, finesses, refinements). (various references) incelikler (particulars), hoş yanlar, ayrıntılar (details, further particulars, particulars). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"NICETIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aniketos, necities, nicoise, Nikitas, Nikiteas, Nisibis, Nycanthes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NICETIES" (pronounced nī"sutēz) |
| 5 | -s u t ē z | animosities, atrocities, capacities, complexities, curiosities, densities, eccentricities, intensities, necessities, propensities, universities, velocities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, deformities, deities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, utilities, vanities, varieties, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: entices, incites, sienite. | |
-2 letters: cities, entice, iciest, incest, incise, incite, insect, nicest, nieces, seniti. | |
-3 letters: cense, cents, cesti, cetes, cines, cites, inset, intis, neist, niece, nisei, nites, scene, scent, seine, sente, senti, since, stein, teens, tense, tines. | |
-4 letters: cees, cent, cete, cine, cist, cite, etic, ices, inti, nest, nets, nice, nisi, nite, nits, sect, seen, sene, sent, sice, sine, site, snit, teen, tees, tens, tics, ties, tine, tins. | |
-5 letters: cee, cis, ens, ice, ins, its, nee, net, nit, sec, see, sei, sen, set, sic, sin, sit, tee, ten, tic, tie, tin, tis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centesimi, indictees, insectile, reincites, scientize. | |
+2 letters: citizeness, deficients, eugenicist, excipients, geneticist, incentives, inceptives, indiscreet, insistence, inspective, interstice, invectives, iridescent, recipients, scientized, scientizes, tenacities. | |
+3 letters: ancientries, antiemetics, antiscience, cabinetries, centiliters, certainties, cimetidines, cinematizes, citizenries, convexities, creatinines, dentifrices, disinfected, ecumenicist, esthetician, ethnicities, eugenicists, fecundities, fictioneers, fictiveness, freneticism, geneticists, hesitancies, impatiences, impotencies, incinerates, incitements, indehiscent, inexistence, insectaries, insecticide, insectivore, insentience, insistences, interstices, intestacies, itchinesses, ivermectins, kinesthetic, lecithinase, licentiates, mendacities, mendicities, necessities, nematicides, obscenities, percipients, pheneticist, princeliest, reminiscent, renitencies, reticencies, reviviscent, sincerities, stridencies, stringpiece, viridescent. | |
+4 letters: acetanilides, aesthetician, antisciences, benedictions, beneficiates, bitchinesses, cementitious, centralities, centricities, citizenesses, coefficients, containerise, corecipients, derelictions, disincentive, ecumenicists, electricians, encephalitis, endemicities, estheticians, evangelistic, eviscerating, evisceration, explicitness, freneticisms, frontispiece, geanticlines, geoscientist, henotheistic, histogenetic, impenitences, incentivizes, incertitudes, indirectness, indiscreetly, inefficients, inexistences, infelicities, inheritances, inheritrices, insecticides, insectivores, insecurities, insentiences, insistencies, intercession, intersecting, intersection, interservice, intersociety, interspecies, intraspecies, inveteracies, iridescently, itinerancies, lecithinases, lectionaries, neorealistic, pertinencies, pheneticists, receptionist, recriminates, redirections, reinfections, reinjections, reinspecting, reinspection, rodenticides, secessionist, sectarianize, selectionist, stickinesses, stringencies, stringpieces, tensiometric, transiencies, trickinesses. | |
+5 letters: acetonitriles, actinometries, aestheticians, amniocentesis, antipesticide, antirecession, astringencies, bicentenaries, bicentennials, biconvexities, bioenergetics, ceremonialist, chieftaincies, cinquecentist, colinearities, consistencies, containerised, containerises, containerizes, contingencies, contrarieties, coresidential, craniometries, credentialism, cyberneticist, densitometric, depreciations, determinacies, deterministic, dinucleotides, directionless, disincentives, disrespecting, ecumenicities, enterocolitis, eudaemonistic, eviscerations, exercitations, fictivenesses, frontispieces, geometricians, geoscientists, identicalness, illicitnesses, imperfections, impertinences, inclinometers, inconsecutive, inconsiderate, inconsistence, incontinences, incredulities, inexactitudes, infectivities, insincerities, insusceptible, intellections, intelligences, interceptions, intercessions, interjections, intersections, intersocietal, interspecific, intransigence, intricateness, introspective, invectiveness, isoelectronic, lieutenancies, miscegenation, misperception, necessitarian, necessitating, necessitation, perfectionism, perfectionist, persistencies, pertinacities, precipitances, predilections, presanctified, prescientific, reactionaries, receptionists, rechristening, recreationist, rededications, redescription, reindictments, reinspections, reminiscently, retinoscopies, secessionists, sectarianized, sectarianizes, selectionists, semisynthetic, sensitometric, steroidogenic, technicalizes, theoreticians, totipotencies, tredecillions, tricksinesses, uncertainties, unreminiscent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 45 54 49 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. -.-. . - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001001 01000011 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C E T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 0043 0045 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4843373954433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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