dearness
noun/ˈdɪə(ɹ)nəs/
Etymology From dear + -ness.
1
Usually The quality of having great value or price.
- But brothers pass not into noble friendships upon the stock of that relation: they have fair dispositions and advantages, and are more easy and ready to ferment into the greatest dearnesses, if all things else be answerable.1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship:
- Customers in Padgett Street did not generally, one might infer, express approval on the score of dearness.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- Related terms
- costliness