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Costliness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The characteristic of being costly.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character or fact of being costly; expensiveness; richness; great cost or expense; sumptuousness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

Word Usage

"Unsatisfied with off-the-rack roman shades — too dinky and un-luxe — and horrified by custom curtain costliness, I noticed the industrial roller shade, an undervalued player on the scene."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

expensiveness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

expensiveness sumptuousness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

squalidness spaciousness opulence luxuriance luxuriousness