Noah Webster
Nicety
NICETY, noun
1. Niceness; delicacy of perception.
2. Excess of delicacy; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
So love doth lothe disdainful nicety
3. Minute difference; as the niceties of words.
4. Minuteness of observation or discrimination; precision. The connoisseur judges of the beauties of a painting with great nicety
5. Delicate management; exactness in treatment.
Love such nicety requires. One blast will put out all his fires.
6. Niceties, in the plural, delicacies for food; dainties.