EXPENSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being high-priced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("expensiveness" is a kind of...):

cost; monetary value; price (the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expensiveness"):

costliness; dearness; preciousness (the quality possessed by something with a great price or value)

lavishness; luxury; sumptuosity; sumptuousness (the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive)

Antonym:

inexpensiveness (the quality of being affordable)

Derivation:

expensive (high in price or charging high prices)