Usually means: Polite gestures or expressions; courtesies.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. niceties: Merriam-Webster
  2. niceties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. niceties: Collins English Dictionary
  4. niceties: Vocabulary.com
  5. Niceties, niceties: Wordnik
  6. niceties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. niceties: Wiktionary
  8. Niceties, niceties: Dictionary.com
  9. Niceties: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. niceties: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. niceties: FreeDictionary.org
  12. niceties: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. niceties: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Niceties: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nicety as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nicety)

noun:  A small detail or distinction.
noun:  Subtlety or precision of use; exactness; preciseness.
noun:  Delicacy of character or feeling usually from excessive refinement; fastidiousness
noun:  Synonym of social nicety.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is delicate to the taste.
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