COSTLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does costliness mean? 

• COSTLINESS (noun)
  The noun COSTLINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

  Familiarity information: COSTLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSTLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality possessed by something with a great price or value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

costliness; dearness; preciousness

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

expensiveness (the quality of being high-priced)

Derivation:

costly (having a high price)

 Context examples 

It was very noble—very grand—very charming!—was all that Catherine had to say, for her indiscriminating eye scarcely discerned the colour of the satin; and all minuteness of praise, all praise that had much meaning, was supplied by the general: the costliness or elegance of any room's fitting-up could be nothing to her; she cared for no furniture of a more modern date than the fifteenth century.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)