Definitions for nicety

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nicety ni·ce·ty

Spelling: [nahy-si-tee]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ sɪ ti/

Nicety is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in nicety (ceinty).

Definitions for nicety

noun

1. a delicate or fine point; punctilio:
2. a fine distinction; subtlety; detail:
3. Usually, niceties. a refined, elegant, or choice feature, as of manner or living:
4. exactness or precision.
5. the quality of being nice; niceness.
6. delicacy of character, as of something requiring care or tact:

Origin of nicety

1275-1325; Middle English: silliness, extravagance, cleverness Old French niceté. See nice, -ty²

Examples for nicety

The latter had a special arrangement by which they could be levelled to a nicety.

It's the lack of certain things that go with nicety of living that grinds me most.

To the college student life is not classified and systematized to a nicety.

He had gauged the character of his most uncompromising and powerful enemy to a nicety.

Calculating the instant to a nicety, he paid off the sheet and pulled up the tiller.

Ellis was with me, and declares that Hayden has touched me off to a nicety.

For to exaggerate with judgment one must begin by measuring with nicety.

Save at the base he matched his leaf surroundings to a nicety.

Mr. Caske,” responded the minister, “you have interpreted my words to a nicety.

It was to accomplish this nicety that the principle of the club was found to be so well adapted.