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Noun nicety has 2 senses
- justness, rightness, nicety - conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"
--1 is a kind of conformity, conformance
- nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement - 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"
--2 is a kind of meaning, significance, signification, import
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