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Expensiveness

//ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being expensive; the entailing of great expense. uncountable, usually

    "1743, John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, London: G. Whitfield, 1796, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part II, III.1, p. 212, https://books.google.ca/books?id=A6FgAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Surely you cannot be ignorant, that the sinfulness of fine apparel lies chiefly in the expensiveness. In that it is robbing God and the Poor; it is defrauding the fatherless and the widow; it is wasting the food of the hungry, and with-holding his raiment from the naked, to consume it on our own lusts."

  2. 2
    the quality of being high-priced wordnet

Etymology

From expensive + -ness.

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