English Dictionary

preciosity

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌpɹɛʃiˈɒsəti/

名詞

軽蔑的 不可算名詞 通常 可算名詞 廃用

(usually derogatory, uncountable) The quality of being overly refined in an affected way (often used to describe speech or writing, but also visual art and dress).

日本語の意味

過度に洗練され、作為的な上品さ（しばしば否定的に用いられる） / 人工的で気取った上品さ、特に言葉遣いや文体、視覚芸術、服装にみられる様子

The critic dismissed the novelist's ornate prose as mere preciosity rather than genuine insight.

評論家はその小説家の華美な文体を、真の洞察ではなく単なる気取った過度の洗練にすぎないと退けた。

意味（1）

(usually derogatory, uncountable) The quality of being overly refined in an affected way (often used to describe speech or writing, but also visual art and dress).

[Italian renaissance painter Neroccio] had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

意味（2）

(usually derogatory, countable) An instance of preciosity; something that is overly refined in an affected way.

O Father Master, is it possible! (exclaimed the Beneficiary ready to roll about the floor with laughing) is it possible that such preciosities are printed! […]

意味（3）

(obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being precious (of high value or worth).

I must be forc’d to say somewhat of Margarites [i.e. pearls] themselves, and I am affraid I shall rather be struck with the deepest amazement and confusion, than be able to expresse their unspeakable worth and preciosity.

意味（4）

(obsolete, countable) Something of high value or worth.

That which is rare (we know) is with all Nations precious, and what is precious they love to appropriate and transferr upon themselves as near as they can […] . So if there be any thing more costly then another, they will hang it on their Bodies […] , such as their Ear-rings and Jewells. But these Barbarians seem to exceed them in the curiositie of their application of these Preciosities, they fully implanting them into their very Flesh, as if they were part of their natural Body.

preciosities （ plural ）