costliness
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈkɔstlinəs/
:
costosidad
- They decided against the renovation due to the costliness of the materials needed.
Examples
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They're very consistent things like unforgeable costliness, the demand for scarce supply and the durability, people choosing durable objects.
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The assumption of proportional reduction in excess costs is equivalent to assuming a random distribution of prevented cases by costliness, in the absence of evidence on which to base a different assumption, such as larger reductions among least costly cases.
Academic text (2011) -
Natural hair does not get a pass from costliness.
Blog text (17) -
He has come to the store to spend the better part of this on a chair that celebrates, through its stature and costliness, the only activity in which he is truly himself.
Fiction book (1996) -
It might be neutral, but the costliness of religion, which inevitably demands sacrifices of time and money from its adherents, strongly suggests there must be some balancing benefit.
Blog text (31) -
Women vied with one another in the costliness of the material and the types of decorations attached to the skirt, which became an expressive palette for individual fantasies.
Academic text (1997) -
Audio or video recordings were used by a third of the doctors in Stinson's study, but enthusiasm for these media waned when the drawbacks emerged: the time taken to locate a section of interest, the limited life and costliness of high-quality video, and the differences in equipment that divide the English-speaking world.
Academic text (1991) -
The costliness of the new smartphone made many people hesitate to buy it.
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The costliness of maintaining the old building forced the city to consider demolition.
Synonyms
3
5.2
A quality of being very valuable and much loved
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7.4
A time when things cost a lot
A high price that makes something hard to buy
The quality of having worth or importance
A value so great that it cannot be measured in money
A quality of being priceless and very useful
Antonyms
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Costliness comes from cost ('price') plus the ending -ness ('the quality of'), and is related to costly ('expensive'). So costliness is the 'quality of' having a high cost, which is why it means being expensive.