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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined;
[syn: preciosity, preciousness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n. Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. -ties. [F. pr['e]ciosit['e], OF. also precieuset['e].] Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French pr['e]cieuses of the 17th century. He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent. --L. Douglas. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

preciosity n 1: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined [syn: preciosity, preciousness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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