Nîç'e-ty, n.

n. 1. The quality of being nice; delicacy; daintiness; as, (a.) Delicate management; exactness in treatment. Love such nicety requires. One blast will put out all his fires. Swift. (b.) Delicacy of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision; as, nicety of judgment or taste. (c.) Excess of delicacy; fastidiousness; squeamishness. So love doth loathe disdainful nicety. Spenser. 2. That which is new or delicate, as a dainty dish of food; a delicacy;—used especially in the plural, a delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, or the like. “The fitness and niceties of words.” Locke.