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EXPENSIVENESS

• EXPENSIVENESS (noun)
The noun EXPENSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being high-priced

Familiarity information: EXPENSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

• EXPENSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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