nicety

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One nicety was offline gps app right out of the box.

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conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"

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noun

conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"

noun

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nicety.

noun

conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"

noun

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"

See also: nuance, shade, subtlety, refinement

Example sentences

One nicety was offline gps app right out of the box.

And even now, having it available without fiddling with anything will be such a nicety.

I am not saying LE and SJ are that type, but in general - Assholes are the ones with less or no unnecessary nicety filters.

I didn't get into every legal nicety here; that's what a formal pleading is for, not a summary webpage & youtube clip. :-PAlso, this wasn't a border search I was flying within the US.

I'd love to build MVC applications with well-structured architecture all day but many clients just won't pay for backend nicety.

I think the main reason was independence from vendors - since they were based on NT and Microsoft just pulled the support - ouch!, not necessarily nicety or features of a desktop.

The fact that they don't immediately deduct the funds from the merchant, as a merchant account would, is actually a nicety, as their own books are missing money until that chargeback is resolved.

This may seem like a trivial nicety, but just across the river I feel like I'm rolling the dice every time I step into an intersection where I didn't specifically see the walk symbol come on.