Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or quality of being nice, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality or state of being nice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun computing, Unix A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of nice
  • noun a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
  • noun the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

Etymologies

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From nice +‎ -ness.

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