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PRECIOSITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preciosity mean?
• PRECIOSITY (noun)
The noun PRECIOSITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Familiarity information: PRECIOSITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
preciosity; preciousness
Hypernyms ("preciosity" is a kind of...):
affectedness (the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others))
Derivation:
precious (obviously contrived to charm)
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