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expensiveness

noun
/ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnəs/

Etymology

From expensive + -ness.

  1. borrowed from *expēnsīvus✻
  2. suffixed as expensiveness — “expensive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being expensive

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

    • Apart from the expensiveness of everything, there were recurrent shortages of this and that, which, of course, always hit the poor rather than the rich.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA