nicety
noun
1 nicety
Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety.
synonyms: justness, rightness.
Roget 939:
probity,
integrity,
rectitude;
uprightness
etc.
adj.;
honesty,
faith;
honor;
bonne foi [Fr.],
good faith,
bona fides [Lat.];
purity,
clean hands.
fairness
etc.
adj.;
fair play,
justice,
equity,
impartiality,
principle,
even-handedness;
grace.
constancy;
faithfulness
etc.
adj.;
fidelity,
loyalty;
incorruption,
incorruptibility.
trustworthiness
etc.
adj.;
truth,
candor,
singleness of heart;
veracity
etc.
543;
tender conscience
etc.
(sense of duty)
926.
punctilio,
delicacy,
nicety;
scrupulosity,
scrupulousness
etc.
adj.;
scruple;
point,
point of honor;
punctuality.
dignity
&c.,
(repute)
873;
respectability,
respectableness
etc.
adj.;
gentilhomme [Fr.],
gentleman;
man of honor,
man of his word;
fidus Achates [Lat.],
preux chevalier [Fr.],
galantuomo [It];
truepenny†,
trump,
brick;
true Briton;
white man [U.S.].
court of honor,
a fair field and no favor;
argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.].
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Roget 868:
fastidiousness
etc.
adj.;
nicety,
hypercriticism,
difficulty in being pleased,
friandise [Fr.],
epicurism,
omnia suspendens naso [Lat.].
epicure,
gourmet.
[Excess of delicacy]
prudery.
Roget 494:
fact,
reality
etc.
(existence)
1;
plain fact,
plain matter of fact;
nature
etc.
(principle)
5;
truth,
verity;
gospel,
gospel truth,
God's honest truth;
orthodoxy
etc.
983.1;
authenticity;
veracity
etc.
543;
correctness,
correctitude†.
accuracy,
exactitude;
exactness,
preciseness
etc.
adj.;
precision,
delicacy;
rigor,
mathematical precision,
punctuality;
clockwork precision
etc.
(regularity)
80;
conformity to rule;
nicety.
orthology†;
ipsissima verba [Lat.];
realism.
plain truth,
honest truth,
sober truth,
naked truth,
unalloyed truth,
unqualified truth,
stern truth,
exact truth,
intrinsic truth;
nuda veritas [Lat.];
the very thing;
not an illusion
etc.
495;
real Simon Pure;
unvarnished tale,
unvarnished truth;
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth;
just the thing.
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2 nicety
A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.
synonyms: nuance, refinement, shade, subtlety.
Roget 850:
taste;
good taste,
refined taste,
cultivated taste;
delicacy,
refinement,
fine feeling,
gust,
gusto,
tact,
finesse;
nicety
etc.
(discrimination)
465;
to prepon [Gr.];
polish,
elegance,
grace.
judgment,
discernment
etc.
465.
dilettantism,
dilettanteism;
virtu;
fine art;
culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste]
aesthetics.
man of taste
&c.;
connoisseur,
judge,
critic,
conoscente,
virtuoso,
amateur,
dilettante,
Aristarchus†,
Corinthian,
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.],
stagirite†,
euphemist.
caviare to the general"
[Hamlet].
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Roget 465:
discrimination,
distinction,
differentiation,
diagnosis,
diorism†;
nice perception;
perception of difference,
appreciation of difference;
estimation
etc.
466;
nicety,
refinement;
taste
etc.
850;
critique,
judgment;
tact;
discernment
etc.
(intelligence)
498;
acuteness,
penetration;
nuances.
dope [Slang],
past performances.
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Dutch: subtiliteit, schaduw
Polish: subtelność, delikatność
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