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Definition of Preciousness
1. Noun. The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.
Generic synonyms: Expensiveness
Derivative terms: Costly, Dear, Precious
2. Noun. The positive quality of being precious and beyond value.
Generic synonyms: Value
Specialized synonyms: Gold
Derivative terms: Invaluable, Precious, Priceless, Valuable, Valuable
3. Noun. The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined.
Definition of Preciousness
1. n. The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
Definition of Preciousness
1. Noun. The condition of being precious; costliness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preciousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preciousness
Literary usage of Preciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1869)
"The idea of preciousness is primarily a commercial idea, and, like most of the
... Therefore preciousness carries the intrinsic value, either in its use, ..."
2. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward (1871)
"The idea of preciousness is primarily a commercial idea, and, like most of the
... Therefore preciousness carries the intrinsic value, either in its use, ..."
3. Plymouth Pulpit: The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1869)
"The idea of preciousness is primarily a commercial idea, and, like most of the
... Therefore preciousness carries the intrinsic value, either in its use, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Whether we get much deeper into the secrets of art-magic, or account for the
sense of preciousness that some paintings diffuse, much better on Mr. ..."
5. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of by Ralph Barton Perry (1918)
"I. THE preciousness OF THE INDIVIDUAL The pluralist, as we have seen, does not
merely accept manyness and diversity as a fact, but he glories in it. ..."
6. Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Ḥāfiẓ, Saʻdī (1900)
"CHAPTER III On the preciousness of Contentment \ MENDICANT from the west of Africa
had taken his /-\ station amidst a group of shopkeepers at Aleppo, ..."
7. Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit by Henry Ward Beecher (1887)
"preciousness OF THE SANCTUARY. Sabbath Morning. INVOCATION. : thank thee, our
Father, that we are gathered from so many places by thy kind providence to ..."
8. Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged by Walter Baxendale (1888)
"CHRIST, preciousness of. A beautiful answer was once given by a little girl in
one of the London Homes for the Destitute. The question was asked why Jesus ..."
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