NICETY Copy link • NICETYAccuracy, cura, accuratio (the latter Cic., Brut., 67, 238, mira accuratio in componendis rebus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cura et diligentia: subtilitas (acuteness, subtilty; e.g., with mathematical nicety, geometrica subtilitate docere aliquid): sometimes diligentia (close application and attention). With the greatest nicety, accuratissime, exactissime, or sometimes diligentissime: nicety of style, loquendi elegantia; urbanitas (opposed to rustica asperitas): niceties of words, argutiae; spinae; dumeta (hair-splitting distinctions, especially in philosophy). PROV., I shall not stand upon niceties, per me sint omnia protinus alba (Persius). Niceties = delicacies, etc, cuppedia (plur.) or cuppediae; cibi delicatiores; res ad epulandum exquisitissimae; bonae res (Nep., Ages., 8, 5); gulae irritamenta.