Preciosity is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 717 anagrams from letters in preciosity (ceiioprsty).
1350-1400; Middle English preciousite Middle French preciosite Latin pretiōsitās. See precious, -ity
Walter Pater's essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.
The dainty trifles of the school of preciosity fluttered at least during the sunshine of a day.
It was the time not only of preciosity, but of the Fronde, with its turbulent adventures and fantastic chivalry.
The character of pedantry and preciosity which the Htel afterwards incurred, is not to be traced in any of its original features.
Lockhart hated all affectation and “preciosity,” of which the new book was not destitute.
But, in reacting everywhere against vulgar roughness, the very excess of his effort landed him at last in preciosity.
The notion that art is first and the rest of the universe nowhere is bound to lead to preciosity and futility in art.
The Queen Anne tea-table, with scalloped edges for cups, marks the note of preciosity creeping into country life.
It is difficult to resist the sense of a strain for bizarre harmony, of a touch of preciosity.
Their aim in preciosity would seem to be to keep themselves unspotted from the world.
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