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Preciosity

noun
1.
The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined.  Synonym: preciousness.





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"Preciosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... me enter my protest against the literary preciosity which derives the word from (un) chante and spells it 'chanty'—in other words, against the gratuitous assumption that unlettered British sailors derived one of the commonest words in their vocabulary from a foreign source. The result of ...
— The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties • Richard Runciman Terry


Words linked to "Preciosity" :   precious, affectedness


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