Preciousness is an English word with synonyms like costliness or dearness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Preciousness in a sentence
Preciousness meaning
The condition of being precious.
Synonyms of Preciousness
Using Preciousness
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being precious.
- Useful related words include: costliness, dearness, expensiveness, invaluableness.
- In the example corpus, preciousness often appears in combinations such as: the preciousness, preciousness of.
Context around Preciousness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Preciousness
- In this selection, "preciousness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the preciousness of humanity and and the preciousness of life. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "preciousness" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with preciousness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Baker is a generous and empathetic artist in a world where ego and preciousness can eat away at creatives. (19 words)
But since there are only nine of them left, one can imagine the preciousness of this piece of paper. (19 words)
Since these quarantining and social distancing limitations have been imposed, I’ve felt the preciousness of daily life more acutely. (20 words)
I did appreciate what this play had to say about the preciousness of humanity and whether we are man or robot, whether we are subject to choose our own path or whether we’re just machines,” Seifret said. (38 words)
Gene Weingarten, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his Washington Post feature writing, decided to try and tell stories from a single day in history and remind us of the preciousness of life in everyday moments. (37 words)
A continent away, but no less incontinent in political correctness, Washington, D.C., is simply unable to control its liberal impulses and is always loath to be outdone in PC preciousness. (31 words)
Have we been taking things for granted, not appreciating the preciousness of our daily existence and the vulnerability associated with our own finitude? (23 words)
Example sentences (10)
Bailey Griffiths and Rupert Bevan in Away, which enchants us into accepting the fragility, and the preciousness of life and art.
According to her views, teen pregnancies uphold the values of life’s 'preciousness' and thus, she has actively advocated against abortion laws.
A continent away, but no less incontinent in political correctness, Washington, D.C., is simply unable to control its liberal impulses and is always loath to be outdone in PC preciousness.
Have we been taking things for granted, not appreciating the preciousness of our daily existence and the vulnerability associated with our own finitude?
Since these quarantining and social distancing limitations have been imposed, I’ve felt the preciousness of daily life more acutely.
Baker is a generous and empathetic artist in a world where ego and preciousness can eat away at creatives.
Gene Weingarten, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his Washington Post feature writing, decided to try and tell stories from a single day in history and remind us of the preciousness of life in everyday moments.
But since there are only nine of them left, one can imagine the preciousness of this piece of paper.
I did appreciate what this play had to say about the preciousness of humanity and whether we are man or robot, whether we are subject to choose our own path or whether we’re just machines,” Seifret said.
May it awaken us to the preciousness of our own lives, the power of our own choices, help us to guard against forces of violence and hate whatever their source.
Common combinations with preciousness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the preciousness 7×
- preciousness of 7×