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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for preciosity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
preciosity
    n 1: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
         [syn: preciosity, preciousness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Preciosity \Pre`ci*os"i*ty\, n.
   Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]

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