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preciosity n. 过于挑剔,过于细心,过于细腻 过于挑剔,过於细心,过於细腻 preciosity n 1: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined [ synonym: { preciosity}, { preciousness}] Preciosity \ Pre` ci* os" i* ty\, n. Preciousness; something precious. [ Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster]
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.] 36 Moby Thesaurus words for " preciosity": Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, ceremonialism, elegance, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, 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
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