preciousness
nounEtymology From Middle English preciousnesse; equivalent to precious + -ness.
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Usually The state or condition of being precious.
- By way of love's express / Sending this message out to you / With time and preciousness / Hopin', prayin', oh, it's got to get through1977, Ashford & Simpson, “By Way of Love's Express”, in Send It:
- In a fascinating growth, when the preciousness of the new fades with no one noticing, the room had changed, evolving into something else.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 197: