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niceness
/ˈnaɪsnɪs/
noun 5
Collocations
3ADJ.
fake, underneath, young
VERB + NICENESS
create
NICENESS + NOUN
less
Definitions
noun
1
Silliness; folly.
2
Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
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 [translating mollesse].
3
Shyness; reserve.
Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
4
Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
5
Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
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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 [translating mollesse]
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Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
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I'd like to uncover what hides underneath her fake niceness.
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