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EXPENSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being high-priced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expensiveness" is a kind of...):
cost; monetary value; price (the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expensiveness"):
costliness; dearness; preciousness (the quality possessed by something with a great price or value)
lavishness; luxury; sumptuosity; sumptuousness (the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive)
Antonym:
inexpensiveness (the quality of being affordable)
Derivation:
expensive (high in price or charging high prices)
