120: nice Apr 7, 2015
Niceness is one of the kindest qualities one can have, at least
nowadays, however, this word did not always have denotation such. The
word 'nice' comes from the Latin verb 'nescire', which means, "to be
ignorant", or "to be unknowing", and until fairly recently, would have
been used as an insult. The reason that 'nice' means what it does to
most people today is due to the negative version of the word being used
almost exclusively, sarcastically.
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