niceness
/ˈnaɪsnɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse]."
- "Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's."
Etymology
Etymology tree English nice Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English niceness From nice + -ness.