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Definitions
the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Word origin
From Middle English preciosite, from Middle French preciosité, from Latin pretiōsitās (“great value; high price”).
Used in a sentence
“1902, R. Langton Douglas, A History of Siena, New York: E.P. Dutton, Chapter 18, p. 385, [Italian renaissance painter Neroccio] had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.”
“It is […] a section of society where everybody talks and poses, where pedantry masquerades as knowledge, sentimentality as sentiment, and preciosity as delicacy and refinement;”
“He was dressed very well and carefully, she thought, and wondered whether Arthur’s preciosity in the matter of clothing influenced his staff.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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