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preciosity
• noun [mass noun] excessive refinement in art, music, or language.
— origin mid 19th cent.: suggested by French préciosité, a sense derived from Molière's Les Précieuses Ridicules (1659), a comedy in which ladies frequenting the literary salons of Paris were satirized.
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Old Irish blessing for 2008, или Let it Be

Let those that love us, love us. And those that don't, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping.