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preciosity

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun preciosity has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

preciosityn. 
     Preciousness; something precious.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
preciosityn. [F. préciosité, OF. also precieuseté.].
     Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century.
    "He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

preciosity, n. overrefinement in art or language, esp. in the choice of words.

Etymology
OF pr{eacute}ciosit{eacute} f. L pretiositas f. pretiosus (as PRECIOUS)

THESAURUS

preciosity

Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, ceremonialism, elegance, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, hyperelegance, legalism, manneredness, mannerism, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, pedantry, preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, pretentiousness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, ritualism, scrupulousness, unnaturalness
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