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Definitions: Nicety |
NicetyNoun1. Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty". 2. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nicety" was first used: 1369. (references) |
Synonyms: NicetySynonyms: justness (n), nuance (n), refinement (n), rightness (n), shade (n), subtlety (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discrimination | Noun: discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation; nicety, refinement; taste; critique, judgment; tact; discernment; (intelligence); acuteness, penetration; nuances. |
Fastidiousness | Noun: fastidiousness; Adjective: nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso. |
Probity | Punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness; Adjective: scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality. |
Taste | Noun: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety; (discrimination); gr/to prepon/gr polish, elegance, grace. |
Truth | Exactly; Adjective: ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking. |
Accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness; Adjective: precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision; (regularity); conformity to rule; nicety. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nicety |
| English words defined with "nicety": Accurateness ♦ discriminate ♦ nice, Nicery, Niceties ♦ Quillet ♦ Roughwork ♦ Subtile ♦ To a nicety. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nicety": Hair, Hairs ♦ Nice as Ninepence. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nicety": Nicery. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These gentlemen, after they had awhile examined my shape with much nicety, were of different opinions concerning me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Nicety" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nicety" is used about 18 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 (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "nicety": to a nicety. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nicety | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nicety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | saktësi (accuracy, definition, elaboration, exactitude, exactness, justness, minuteness, preciseness, precision, sensibility, soundness, veracity), përpikëri (accuracy, exactness, fidelity, preciseness, precision, promptitude, scrupulosity, thoroughness), kujdesshmëri, hollësira (minutiae, niceties), gjellë e zgjedhur (dainty), finesë (finesse, refinement, subtlety), delikatesë (delicacy, refinement, regale, subtlety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكرة دقيقة, تحديد (definition, determination, fixing, limitation, locating, placement, restriction), صحة (accuracy, authenticity, exactitude, fidelity, fitness, health, legitimacy, nearness, purity, soundness, trustiness, truth, validity, veracity), إفراط في التأنق, دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, fineness, finesse, fussiness, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, strictness, subtlety, sureness, tenuity, thoroughness, veracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | щекотливост, финес (daintiness, delicacy, fineness, refinement, subtlety), трудност (ado, crux, difficulty, hardness, hardship, hurdle, involvement, knot, rough, severity, stumbling block, toughness), точност (accuracy, delicacy, distinctness, exactitude, exactness, expedition, fidelity, literality, minuteness, nearness, neatness, particularity, precision, promptitude, punctuality, rigor, rigour, strictness), прецизност (accuracy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, minuteness, precision, smartness), придирчивост (faultfinding, particularity), педантичност (hairsplitting, pedantry, primness), изтънченост (courtliness, daintiness, delicacy, discrimination, polish, politeness, refinement, sophistication, subtlety, urbanity), деликатност (consideration, delicacy, fineness, fragility, frailness, tenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 美好 (Niceness, Niceties). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vybíravost (finicking), přesnost (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, minuteness, niceties, precision, punctuality, rightness, strictness), jemnost (delicacy, gentleness, mildness, refinement, softness, subtlety), choulostivost (queasiness, tenderness, ticklishness, touchiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مطلوبی , خوبی (Excellence, Excellency, Grace), احتیاط (Canniness, Caution, Discretion, Guard, Precaution, Prudence, Reservation, Reserve, Vigilance), ظرافت (Delicacy, Elegance, Grace, Precision), دلپذیری (Amiability), دقت (Accuracy, Attention, Certitude, Delicacy, Precision, Severity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subtilité, précision, justesse, exactitude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | feinheit (acuteness, delicacy, delicateness, excellence, fineness, finesse, intricacy, keenness, niceness, nuance, poshness, refinement, sensitivity, smartness, subtlety, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεπτότησ (comity, delicacy, fineness, gauziness, niceness, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness), λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness), λεπτολογία (cavil, fastidiousness, finicalness, minuteness, particularity, preciosity, punctiliousness, squeamishness, word splitting), ακριίεια, ορθότητα (accuracy, advisability, correctness, propriety, rectitude, rightness, soundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "יוק (accuracy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, preciseness, precision), "קות (delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, niceness, subtlety, tenuity, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pontosság (accuracy, assiduousness, closeness, daintiness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, preciseness, precision, punctuality, sharpness, strictness), finom részlet, finom különbség, finom árnyalat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | precisione (accuracy, exactitude, preciseness, precision, strictness, thoroughness), finezza (acuteness, fineness, finesse, thinness), delicatezza (care, daintiness, delicacy, delicateness, gentleness, sensitivity, softness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeoghid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icetynay refinamento (refinement, sophistication), pormenor (dead set, detail, full stop, minuteness, particular, point), minúcia (detail, minuteness), exatidão (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithless, literalism, nearness, particularity, precision, propriety, punctuality), esmero (care), escrúpulo (boggle, compunction, conscience, demur, qualmishness, scruple, scrupulosity), delicadeza (comity, consideration, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, mannerliness, niceness, respect, suavity, tenderness, urbanity). (various references) subtilitate (acuteness, exility, fineness, finesse, refinement, sagacity, shrewdness, subtlety), scrupulozitate (delicacy, scrupulosity, scrupulousness), punctualitate (exactitude, exactness, precision, punctuality), precizie (accuracy, closeness, precision, sharpness), fineţe (delicacy, fineness, finesse, refinement, subtlety), exactitate (accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, neatness, precision, punctuality, reliability, rightness, rigor, rigour, strictness), distincţie finã, delicateţe (daintiness, dainty, delicacy, fineness, gentleness, refinement, softness, tactfulness, tenderness, thinness), arguţiozitate, acurateţe (accuracy, carefulness, neatness, orderliness). (various references) точность (accuracy, accurateness, definition, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, justness, pithiness, preciseness, precision, punctuality, rigour, severity, veracity). (various references) utančanost (nuance), uglađenost (polish, politeness, refinement, smoothness, suavity). (various references) sutileza (finesse, niceness, quibble, quiddity, subtlety), precisión (accuracy, accurately, preciseness, precision), finura (discrimination, fineness, finesse, finicalness, grace, lovableness, niceness, refinement, suavity, subtlety). (various references) finhet (daintiness, delicacy, fineness, gentility, gentillity, tenuity). (various references) ความแม่นยำ, ความพิถีพิถัน. (various references) titizlik (daintiness, fastidiousness, fussiness, meticulousness, niceness, particularity, peevishness, punctilio, rigor, rigour, scrupulousness, thoroughness), tamlık (accuracy, complement, completeness, entirety, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, plenitude, preciseness, precision, thoroughness, truth, wholeness), kesinlik (accuracy, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conclusiveness, decisiveness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, downrightness, exactitude, exactness, finality, firmness, implicitness, positiveness, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, roundness, sureness, surety, the absolute), incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness, touch), ayrıntı (circumstance, detail, elaboration, particular). (various references) витонченість (daintiness, delicacy, elegance, exquisiteness, preciosity, refinement, smart, sophistication, stylishness, subtlety), дрібниці (minutiae, nothing doing, nothingness, notion, trivia), причепливість (cavil, fault finding), пунктуальність (punctilio, punctuality), ласощі (confection, dainty, kickshaw), елегантність (chic, dandyism, elegance, gracefulness, nuttiness, stylishness), манірність (affectation, affectedness, buckram, mannerism, namby-pamby, offishness, primness), обережність (alertness, canniness, care, caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, heed, precaution, wariness), вибагливість, деталі (minutiae), вишуканість (chic, courtliness, daintiness, delicacy, elegance, fineness, smartness), старанність (accuracy, alacrity, application, assiduity, diligence, elaboration, exactness, goodwill, heartiness, impressment, painstaking, particularity, sedulity, thoroughness), важкість (difficulty), тонкощі, точність (accuracy, appropriateness, correctness, exactitude, exactness, explicitness, fidelity, justness, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, scrupulosity, sensibility, veracity), чіткість (clearness, conciseness, concision, definition, legibility, neatness, readability, sharpness), ретельність (application, assiduity, care, diligence, eagerness, rigor, rigour, severity), розбірливість (legibility), соромливість (backwardness, bashfulness, pudency, shamefacedness, shyness), складністьність, скрупульозність (scrupulousness), вимогливість (strictness). (various references) những chi tiết vụn vặt, những điều tế nhị tinh vi, sự chính xác (accuracy, accurateness, correctness, precision, unerringness), sự đúng đắn sự tế nhị. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nicety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aniceto, Nacett, Naspetti, ncet, Necati, Necmettin, neety, Nekemte, Nesseby, nicent, nicey, nichtig, nicish, Nicot, nict, nicta, niecte, niet, Niget, Nikiya, nilete, nipet, Nishett, Noceto, Nyctea, Nzctu, ricety. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "nicety" (pronounced 'Ni"ce*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: yince. | |
-2 letters: cent, cine, cite, city, etic, nice, nite, tine, tiny, tyin, tyne, yeti. | |
-3 letters: ice, icy, net, nit, ten, tic, tie, tin, tye, yen, yet, yin. | |
-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cyanite, cystein, cystine. | |
+2 letters: cyanites, cysteine, cysteins, cystines, cytidine, cytokine, cytosine, syenitic, syndetic, synectic, tenacity. | |
+3 letters: anciently, ancientry, asyndetic, cabinetry, certainly, certainty, citizenly, citizenry, convexity, cysteines, cytidines, cytokines, cytosines, encysting, enzymatic, ethnicity, ethylenic, fecundity, genotypic, hesitancy, impotency, inexactly, insectary, intercity, intestacy, mendacity, mendicity, metonymic, necessity, obscenity, renitency, reticency, sincerity, stridency, syncretic, syndicate, synthetic, thylacine. | |
+4 letters: accidently, acetifying, acetylenic, centrality, centricity, certifying, coenocytic, contritely, covetingly, curtseying, cybernetic, cysteamine, cytogenies, decrypting, decryption, dysenteric, dyskinetic, encrypting, encryption, endemicity, endophytic, enticingly, ethnically, exactingly, excitingly, fetchingly, hypertonic, inactively, inchoately, indecently, indirectly, infelicity, innocently, insecurity, insistency, inveteracy, isocyanate, itinerancy, lectionary, myasthenic, noticeably, pernickety, pertinency, phenotypic, rectifying, reticently, stringency, strychnine, syncretise, syncretism, syncretist, syncretize, syndicated, syndicates, synergetic, synthetics, thylacines, transiency, trichogyne, tyrocidine. | |
+5 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, acetylation, actinometry, actinomyces, affectingly, amylopectin, anticruelty, anticyclone, antipyretic, antisecrecy, astringency, benedictory, bicentenary, biconvexity, centrically, chieftaincy, circinately, coenzymatic, cognitively, colinearity, conceitedly, confidently, consistency, continently, contingency, contrariety, convertibly, copyediting, countryfied, countryside, countrywide, courtesying, craniometry, cryptogenic, crystalline, cybernation, cybernetics, cysteamines, cytogenetic, cytokineses, cytokinesis, cytokinetic, decryptions, deficiently, determinacy, dicotyledon, ecumenicity, efficiently, encryptions, endocytosis, endocytotic, genetically, genotypical, glycerinate, gynogenetic, hectoringly, hyacinthine, identically, inceptively, incessantly, incipiently, inclemently, incorrectly, incredulity, inductively, ineluctably, infectivity, insincerity, interagency, intercalary, intercounty, intricately, invectively, isocyanates, kinetically, lieutenancy, metonymical, multiagency, myasthenics, nonsystemic, persistency, persnickety, pertinacity, pinocytoses, polycentric, polygenetic, polytechnic, predynastic, presciently, presynaptic, pyrotechnic, pyroxenitic, quiescently, reactionary, reconditely, rejectingly, retinoscopy, sectionally, strychnines, syncopative, syncretised, syncretises, syncretisms, syncretists, syncretized, syncretizes, synergistic, synesthetic, technically, tenaciously, tetanically, thiocyanate, tonetically, totipotency, trichogynes, typecasting, typicalness, tyrannicide, tyrocidines, uncertainly, uncertainty. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 63 65 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (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 01101001 01100011 01100101 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i c e t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0063 0065 0074 0079 |
| 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)487569718691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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