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Preciosity   Listen
noun
Preciosity  n.  (pl. preciosities)  Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century. "He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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