Term: preciosity: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: revisionism: a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: grade: a degree of ablaut
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: holding cell: a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: sponge bath: you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: ground fire: a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: department of defense laboratory system: a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: crib: baby bed with high sides made of slats
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: onychophoran: any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: cat scratch disease: a disease thought to be transmitted to humans by a scratch from a cat
Broader: affectedness: the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | Unrelated: coffee filter: filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds