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Expensiveness

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n. The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being expensive, or of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money; costliness; extravagance: as, the expensiveness of war; expensiveness of one's tastes.

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n. the quality of being high-priced

Word Usage

"Mary was used to the expensiveness of Mrs. O'Callahan, but here was a new kind of expensiveness, subtle and compelling, strangely unconscious."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

price monetary value cost

Hyponym

sumptuousness luxury dearness costliness sumptuosity

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