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1. A courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
   - politeness, politesse
    
2. The quality of nice
    
3. The quality of being difficult to detect or analyse
   "you had to admire the niceness of the distinctions he drew";
   - subtlety

See also: impolite, nice, polite

Type of: courtesy, difficultness, difficulty, fix [informal], good manners, hole [informal], jam [informal], kettle of fish [informal], mess [informal], muddle [informal], pickle [informal], pleasantness, pleasurableness, sweetness

Antonym: impoliteness, nastiness

Encyclopedia: Niceness