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(naɪsɪti)
Word forms: plural niceties
countable noun [usually plural, adjective NOUN]
The niceties of a situation are its details, especially with regard to good manners or the appropriate behaviour for that situation.
By the end of term, girls will have learnt the niceties of dinner party conversation. [+ of]
He wasted no time with social niceties.
...the language of diplomatic niceties.
Synonyms: fine point, distinction, subtlety, nuance More Synonyms of nicety

nicety in British English

(ˈnaɪsɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. 
a subtle point of delicacy or distinction
a nicety of etiquette
2. (usually plural)
a refinement or delicacy
the niceties of first-class travel
3. 
subtlety, delicacy, or precision
4. 
excessive refinement; fastidiousness
5.  to a nicety

nicety in American English

(ˈnaɪsəti)
nounWord forms: plural ˈniceties
1. 
the quality or state of being nice
; specif.,
a. 
scrupulosity
b. 
precision; accuracy; exactness, as of discrimination or perception
c. 
fastidiousness; refinement; delicacy of taste
2. 
the quality of calling for delicacy, accuracy, or precision in handling, discrimination, or adjustment
3. 
anything involving or calling for delicacy, accuracy, or precision; subtle or minute detail, distinction, etc.
4. 
something choice, dainty, or elegant
Idioms:
to a nicety
Word origin
ME nicete < OFr, folly < nice: see nice

Examples of 'nicety' in a sentence
nicety

Today's Anglo-American relationship is as much based on intelligence and defence cooperation as it is on diplomatic niceties or trade concerns.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Should we worry about the semantic niceties?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These may be the necessary niceties of realistic diplomacy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Consequently his grip on the constitutional niceties have been exposed as far from flawless.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet diplomatic niceties continued to be exchanged in public last week.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There is no room for legal niceties in a war like this.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But we can still maintain a veneer of social niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The ruling brought an end to diplomatic niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She had little time for diplomatic niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Since then there has been a warmth in their dealings that has gone beyond the normal diplomatic niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then he ran a wildly popular purge of gangsters and corrupt policemen with death sentences and scant regard for legal niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Pulling has always had a ferocious commitment to ripping back the veneer of social niceties in female friendships and romantic entanglements.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It has cast aside diplomatic niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If an energy policy works, we shall not fret over constitutional niceties.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Black's plans do not appear to have been unduly cramped by any constitutional niceties.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
That's not going to happen until legal niceties are squared away.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
When it came to sleeping arrangements, the social niceties of the day had to be observed.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
No social niceties, just straight down to business.
The Sun (2016)
Such a view scarcely suggested much regard for diplomatic niceties, but there the matter rested.
Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)
It was a world far from the Geneva conventions, let alone the modern international legal niceties.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
(noun) 
Definition
a refinement or delicacy
We have dealt with all the legal niceties.
Synonyms
fine point
distinction
subtlety
All those linguistic subtleties get lost when a book goes into translation.
nuance
Our eyes can communicate virtually every subtle nuance of emotion.
refinement
the refinements of the game
minutiae
delicacy
He played with a superb delicacy of touch.

Additional synonyms

in the sense of delicacy
Definition
refinement of feeling, manner, or appreciation
He played with a superb delicacy of touch.
Synonyms
lightness,
accuracy,
precision,
elegance,
sensibility,
purity,
subtlety,
refinement,
finesse,
nicety,
fineness,
exquisiteness
in the sense of nuance
Definition
a subtle difference, as in colour, meaning, or tone
Our eyes can communicate virtually every subtle nuance of emotion.
Synonyms
subtlety,
degree,
distinction,
graduation,
refinement,
nicety,
gradation,
suggestion,
trace,
hint,
shade
in the sense of refinement
Definition
a subtle point or distinction
the refinements of the game
Synonyms
subtlety,
nuance,
nicety,
fine point

Nearby words of
nicety

  • nice
  • nicely
  • niceness
  • nicety
  • niche
  • nick
  • nickname

Synonyms of 'nicety'

nicety

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of subtlety
Definition
a fine distinction
All those linguistic subtleties get lost when a book goes into translation.
Synonyms
fine point,
refinement,
nicety,
sophistication,
delicacy,
intricacy,
discernment
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