Noah Webster
Niceness
NICENESS, noun
1. Delicacy of perception; the quality of perceiving small differences; as niceness of taste.
2. Extreme delicacy; excess of scrupulousness or exactness.
Unlike the niceness of our modern dames.
3. Accuracy; minute exactness; as niceness of work; niceness of texture or proportion.
Wheres now the labored niceness in thy dress?