a priori vs nice

a priori

adj
  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

nice

adj
  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

noun
  • niceness. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

How often have the words a priori and nice occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )