Preciosity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Extreme meticulousness or overrefinement, as in language, taste, or style.
  • n. An instance of extreme meticulousness or overrefinement.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A state or condition of overemphasizing detail, especially of pronunciation when speaking.
  • n. Something precious.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Preciousness; something precious.
  • n. Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Costliness; value; great worth; preciousness.
  • n. Anything of great price or value.
  • n. The quality of being overnice; fastidiousness; excessive refinement.
  • n. The character of being precious in sense 6 or 7. See precious, 6.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    affectedness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    preciousness    fastidiousness   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    quoter    episcopari    mawkishness    foppishness    histrionism   
     
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