Preciosity /(?)/

Pre·ci·os·i·ty

Preciosity

n.
  1. Preciousness; something precious. [Obs.]

Preciosity

n.

pl. -ties

  1. Fastidious refinement, esp. in language; specif., the affected purism and sententiousness characteristic of the French précieuses of the 17th century.
    He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.