[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

nicety \ni"cety\, n.; pl. niceties. oe. nicet'e
   foolishness.
   1. the quality or state of being nice in any of the senses
      of that word..
      1913 webster

            the miller smiled of her nicety.      --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of
      observation or of discrimination; precision.
      1913 webster

   3. a delicate expression, act, mode of treatment,
      distinction, or the like; a minute distinction.
      1913 webster

            the fineness and niceties of words.   --locke.
      1913 webster

   to a nicety, with great exactness or accuracy.
      1913 webster
see also:
niceties to a nicety 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

nicety
     n 1: conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or
          propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"
          syn: justness, rightness
     2: a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude;
        "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy
        the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" syn: nuance,
         shade, subtlety, refinement
see also:
justness rightness nuance shade subtlety refinement 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

120 moby thesaurus words for "nicety":
   absoluteness, accuracy, acquired taste, appreciation,
   appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence,
   appreciativeness, artistic judgment, attention to detail,
   attention to fact, care for truth, choiceness, circumstantiality,
   civilized taste, civilizedness, connoisseurship, conscientiousness,
   correctness, critical niceness, criticality, criticalness,
   cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy,
   delicate distinction, delicateness, detail, differentia,
   differential, discriminating taste, discriminatingness,
   discrimination, discriminativeness, distinction, elegance,
   exactingness, exactitude, exactness, excellence, exquisiteness,
   faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, feel, feeling,
   fidelity, fine palate, fine point, fineness, finesse, finicality,
   finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness,
   good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity,
   graciousness, hairline, judiciousness, literalism, literality,
   literalness, making distinctions, margin, mathematical precision,
   meticulousness, minuteness, narrow margin, nice distinction,
   niceness, niceness of distinction, nuance, palate,
   particle of difference, particularity, particularness, perfection,
   point of difference, polish, preciseness, precisianism, precision,
   punctiliousness, punctuality, quality, refined discrimination,
   refined palate, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness,
   rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness,
   sense, sensibility, sensitivity, severity, shade of difference,
   sophistication, strictness, subtle distinction, subtlety, tact,
   tactfulness, taste, tastefulness, textualism, the letter,
   wide margin

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