A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.
Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety.
1 The nicety of his own handicraft was the cause of the disaster.
2 This is a question that admits of the utmost nicety of discussion.
3 Mrs. Robarts knew to a nicety the exact meaning of this threat.
4 No one has discriminated between the shades of character with such nicety .
5 The pins are made of cold-rolled shafting, and fit to a nicety .
6 This is a nicety which makes not the heart sore at Paris.
7 Using electricity, we can regulate with exquisite nicety the degree of stimulation.
8 Everything was planned to a nicety before he attempted to execute it.
9 The people here are very respectful, notwithstanding my nicety about Miss Partington.
10 They formed their line with nicety and waited our attack with composure.
11 I wondered if there was some legal nicety separating those two propositions.
12 For to exaggerate with judgment one must begin by measuring with nicety .
13 Here is almost every fault which Dryden's later nicety would have condemned.
14 High heads, ribbons, gloves, fans, and lace he understood to a nicety .
15 But do you not think your nicety is a little over- scrupulous?
16 Madness was a fixed point; and the inquiries into it had no nicety .
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