expensiveness
- noun
- /ɪkˈspɛnsɪvnəs/
:
costosidad
- The expensiveness of the new technology makes it difficult for small businesses to afford it.
Examples
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From a Free Exercise perspective, the expensiveness is irrelevant if a method less burdensome upon religion exists to advance the federal government's compelling interests.
Blog text (13) -
"You will buy them books," he said, addressing this collector, "and make no use of them and get yourself laughed at by men of learning who are satisfied with the gain that they derive, not from the beauty of books or their expensiveness, but from the language and thought of their author."
Academic text (1992) -
Even when beads were readily obtainable in the 1950s and '60s, Broster reveals their expensiveness.
Academic text (2003) -
Their encumbrances and inefficiency, their expensiveness, and the numerous avenues to peculation and extortion which they open up are grievances that have brought complaints and remonstrances from all sections of the state.
Academic text (2017) -
The expensiveness of luxury cars often deters many buyers from purchasing them.
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Restaurants that focus on high-quality ingredients typically have a certain level of expensiveness in their pricing.
Synonyms
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1.0
The amount of money you must pay to buy something
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The amount of money needed to buy or do something
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5.9
A state of being expensive or having a high price
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7.4
A time when things cost a lot
Antonyms
How Expensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expensiveness comes from expense plus the ending -ness, and expense comes from an old root meaning 'to pay out', the same idea behind the common word spend. So expensiveness means the 'quality of costing a lot'.