preciosity

But what exasperated Punch most of all was the decadent preciosity of the irregulars who espoused the cause of the New Womanhood.

His dramatic works, though effective on the stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction.

Lockhart hated all affectation and “preciosity,” of which the new book was not destitute.

It is only that, in seeking to compensate himself for his infecundity, he has fallen into the deep sea of preciosity.

Preciosity and artificiality reach their height in Arnaut's poems, which are, for that reason, excessively difficult.