preciosity

English

Noun

preciosity (countable and uncountable, plural preciosities)

  1. A state or condition of overemphasizing detail, especially of pronunciation when speaking.
    • L. Douglas
      He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
  2. (obsolete) Something precious.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

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