the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being choice.
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n. the quality of being very good indeed
Word Usage
"In other words, the artist's aim is not to reproduce the facts which make up the mass of our ordinary and undigested life, but to substitute for the dishevelled commonplace the "choiceness" of an ordered interpretation."