Noun(1) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
(1) This earlier reading had been grounded in a concern that the use of ideas ├ö├ç├┐borrowed├ö├ç├û from other disciplines might make poetry ├ö├ç├┐dependent on intellectual fashions and encourage preciosity .├ö├ç├û(2) The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity , and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess.(3) she uses dialect to create a poetry that is free of highbrow preciosity(4) The wit, light approach and mastery of touch, scale and color balance the figurines├ö├ç├û rather foppish preciosity .(5) All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.(6) They are related to similarly proportioned glassware made in the 1890s, but the delicate tints and precarious attenuation are markers of preciosity and refinement.
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