expensivenessn.
/ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnɪs/ 1. The quality of being expensive or costly, or of requiring large outlay; costliness.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] > dearness
chertea1420
carity1530
dearness1530
dearth1604
expensefulnessa1613
expensiveness1655
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > that on which money is expended > costliness
costiousnessc1443
sumptuousness1525
costliness1528
sumpture?1624
chargeablenessa1656
expensiveness1655
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. viii. 160 in Church-hist. Brit. Considering the expensivenesse of the place [sc. Cambridge].
1656 W. Prynne Summary Coll. Rights Eng. Freemen 21 The expensivenesse..of their Law sutes.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins viii. 75 Their Highways, for their extent, solidity or expensiveness, are some of the greatest monuments of the grandeur of their Empire.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. x. 182 That..celebrity which makes an artist great to the most ordinary people by their knowledge of his great expensiveness.
1882 Seeley in Macmillan's Mag. XLVI. 457 The expensiveness of the wars.
2. Disposition to lavish expenditure, extravagance. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > disposition to
expensefulnessa1613
expensiveness1642
1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xiv. 45 Ulrick Fugger..was disinherited of a great patrimony onely for his studiousnesse, and expensivenesse in buying costly Manuscripts.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. xi. 228 His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself. View more context for this quotation
1819 L. Hunt Indicator 13 Oct. 7 An improved knowledge which does not confound good taste with expensiveness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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