'Preciosity' definitions:
Definition of 'preciosity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined [syn: preciosity, preciousness]
Definition of 'Preciosity'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Definition of 'Preciosity'
From: GCIDE
- Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n. Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'preciosity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- ceremonialism,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- Gongorism,
- 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