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.