niceness
English
/ˈnaɪsnɪs/
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) Silliness; folly.
- Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
- (obsolete) Shyness; reserve.
- Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
- Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
- (computing) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (pos=verb), renice (renice).)
Etymology
Suffix from English nice.
Origin
English
nice
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Niceville English
- nice English
- nice-looking English
- niceish English
- niceling English
- nicely English
- nicen English
- nicery English
- nicety English
- outnice English
- overnice English
- renice English
- seminice English
- supernice English
- underniceness English
- unnice English
- nice Dutch, Flemish
- ナイス Japanese
- ナイスショット Japanese
- nyce Middle English
- nice Old French
- næs Icelandic
- 奶思 Chinese
- naispela Tok Pisin