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Preciosity

발음 /ˌpɹɛʃiˈɒsəti/ · 품사 명사 (noun)

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영어 정의

(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)..

의미별 영어 정의

(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).
(usually derogatory, countable) An instance of preciosity; something that is overly refined in an affected way.
(obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being precious (of high value or worth).
(obsolete, countable) Something of high value or worth.

예문

1902, R. Langton Douglas, A History of Siena, New York: E.P. Dutton, Chapter 18, p. 385, [Italian renaissance painter Neroccio] had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

1916, John Cowper Powys, “Oscar Wilde” in Suspended Judgments, New York: G. Arnold Shaw, p. 416, The style of Wilde is one of the simplest in existence, but its simplicity is the very apex and consummation of the artificial. He uses Biblical language with that self-conscious preciosity—like the movements of a person walking on tiptoe in the presence of the dead—which is so different from the sturdy directness of Bunyan or the restrained rhetoric of the Church of England prayers.

It is […] a section of society where everybody talks and poses, where pedantry masquerades as knowledge, sentimentality as sentiment, and preciosity as delicacy and refinement;

He was dressed very well and carefully, she thought, and wondered whether Arthur’s preciosity in the matter of clothing influenced his staff.

1913, John Hay Beith (as Ian Hay), Happy-Go-Lucky, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 12, p. 151, “Yes, mother mine,” she replied. (Sylvia was rather addicted to little preciosities of this kind.)

“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! […]”

A book like Tropic of Cancer, published at such a time, must be either a tedious preciosity or something unusual, and I think a majority of the people who have read it would agree that it is not the first.

He did not love the vulger herd, but he knew that his own vulgarity would be greater if he forbade it ingress, and that it was not by preciosity that he would attain to the intimate spirit of the dell.

단어 변화형

preciosities

preciosity 동의어

Preciosity 사용 팁

preciosity의 의미, 어조와 문법이 전체 문장에 맞을 때 사용하세요. 동의어라도 모든 문장에서 바로 바꿔 쓸 수 있는 것은 아닙니다.

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자주 묻는 질문

preciosity의 뜻은 무엇인가요?

현재 검증된 한국어 뜻은 준비 중이며 영어 정의는 “(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).”입니다.

preciosity의 동의어는 무엇인가요?

주요 동의어는 affectation, fastidiousness, preciousness, value입니다.

preciosity의 반의어는 무엇인가요?

정확한 반대말은 사용된 의미에 따라 달라집니다.

preciosity를 문장에서 어떻게 쓰나요?