niceness

English

From nice +‎ -ness.

niceness (countable and uncountable, plural nicenesses)

Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness. [from 19th c.]
(obsolete) Silliness; folly. [16th c.]
Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [transl. mollesse].
(obsolete) Shyness; reserve. [16th-19th c.]
Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity. [from 17th c.]
(computing, Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)

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