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Definition: Preciosity |
PreciosityNoun1. The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Preciosity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Preciosity" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "preciosity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spitullim (coquetry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حذلقة, تكلف في اللغة, تكلف (affect, affectation, artificiality, attitudinize, constrain, mannerism, mummery, pose), تصنع في اللغة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | маниерност (manner, mannerism, trick), префиненост, превзетост (fineness, flamboyance, mannerism, primness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | préciosité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Affektiertheit (affectation, affectedness, artificialness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερβολή (exaggeration, exceeding, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, hype, hyperbola, hyperbole, overstatement, superlative), λεπτολογία (cavil, fastidiousness, minuteness, nicety, particularity, punctiliousness, squeamishness, word splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | finomkodás (prettiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preziosit , preziosismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eciositypray preciosismo (courtliness), maneirismo (come-off, courtliness, gimmick, put-off), afetação (affectation, affectedness, airs, assumption, courtliness, coxcombry, frill, mannerism, namby-pamby, pomposity, pretence, pretense, pretension, primness). (various references) afectare (affectation, affecting, archness, demureness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, feint, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, primness, sham). (various references) изысканность (courtliness, daintiness, refinement). (various references) afektiranost. (various references) amaneramiento (affectation, mannerism). (various references) pretiositet, förkonstling (artificiality, mannerism). (various references) yapmacıklık (artificiality, cant, insincerity, mannerism, sophistication, stiltedness), süslü anlatım, aşırı incelik (preciousness), özentili ifade. (various references) витонченість (daintiness, delicacy, elegance, exquisiteness, nicety, refinement, smart, sophistication, stylishness, subtlety). (various references) tính kiểu cách (preciousness), tính cầu kỳ, tính đ i các (preciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Preciosity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: periodity, preciousity, precisosity, precosity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: isotypic, periotic, picrites, priciest. | |
-3 letters: copiers, copters, copyist, cotypes, cryptos, eristic, erotics, isotype, picrite, piosity, pitiers, poetics, prosect, prostie, pyretic, pyrites, pyritic, reposit, riposte, ropiest, society, soritic, spicery, spicier, tipsier, triceps, tropics. | |
-4 letters: cestoi, citers, cities, copers, copier, copies, copter, corpse, corset, cosier, coster, cotype, coyest, cripes, crispy, crypto, crypts, cypres, erotic, escort. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: precipitously, saprogenicity. | |
+4 letters: dryopithecines, hyperviscosity, isentropically, peritrichously, pertinaciously, processability, processibility, proscriptively, pyrogenicities. | |
+5 letters: compressibility, hypertonicities, hypervelocities, introspectively, prehistorically, psychohistories, psychometrician. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 63 69 6F 73 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.-. .. --- ... .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e c i o s i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0063 0069 006F 0073 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847169758185758691 |
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