Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NICE'TY
NICE'TY, n.
- Niceness; delicacy of perception.
- Excess of delicacy; fastidiousness; squeamishness. So love doth lothe disdainful nicety. Spenser.
- Minute difference; as, the niceties of words.
- Minuteness of observation or discrimination; precision. The connoisseur judges of the beauties of a painting with great nicety.
- Delicate management; exactness in treatment. Love such nicety requires, / One blast will put out all his fires. Swift.
- Niceties, in the plural, delicacies for food; dainties.
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