Expensiveness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
     1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
        dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
        family.
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              War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke.
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     2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad
        sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]
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              An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
                                                    --Sprat.
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              The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
  
     Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. --
          {Ex*pen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expensiveness
       n : the quality of being high-priced [ant: {inexpensiveness}]