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UK
/pɹˈɛʃəsnəs/
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NOUN
- the positive quality of being precious and beyond value
- the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
How To Use preciousness In A Sentence
- He had nothing to tell them regarding the preciousness of water and the apportionment of supplies... given they were in their sane minds. HAMMERFALL
- It's hard to imagine like-minded orchestral songsmiths Elliott Smith or Eric Matthews indulging themselves in the palpable sense of fun here without resorting to insufferable preciousness.
- He felt the security and prosperity resulting from "mechanization" now gives people the time to reflect on the preciousness of nature and to learn more about what happens there. Utah Lawmaker: Just Vote No to Wolves
- Memory's pearls, in all the purity of their gleaming preciousness, were counted one by one by the flute and dulciana; and the sadder tones of the waldflute proclaimed the finding of the cross. The Rosary
- Nordheim once based a work around the image of a solitaire diamond, and here, too, his compositions shimmer like stones of unmeasured preciousness.
- Jim Dyckman understood a woman for once, and in a gush of pity for her and of resentment for her disprized preciousness caught at her to embrace her. We Can't Have Everything
- His writings reveal an unattractive preciousness of style.
- We compare the radiant blues and greens of our fragile planet to the blackness of the cosmos, and recognize the infinite preciousness of our lonely home.
- His writings reveal an unattractive preciousness of style.
- Madame Swetchine enjoyed friendships of extraordinary strewth and preciousness with the Countess de Nesselrode, the Princess Galitzin, The Friendships of Women