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Перевод: preciosity

[существительное]
манерность ; изысканность ; изощренность ; утонченность

Тезаурус:

1. Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs, leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing.
2. Subtle mixing of tone points to an ironic interpretation of these phrases: for instance, the preciosity of bethought herself contrasts oddly with the colloquial bluntness of getting rid of in When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext for getting rid of their companion (7); and in the final clause of the passage, the colloquial looking out for foregrounds the specious gentility of something really superior in the way of a resident tutor.
3. "The guns will effect a little useful weeding", he advised her in a letter which regretted "the mortality of the English regulars less than that of the French, Belgian, or even Russian or German armies: because the former are all Tommy Atkins, poor fellows, while the continental armies are inclusive of some of the finest brains and temperaments of the land" - sentiments typical of the preciosity which occasionally mars his civilian correspondence.