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DEARNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dearness mean?
• DEARNESS (noun)
The noun DEARNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
Familiarity information: DEARNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("dearness" is a kind of...):
expensiveness (the quality of being high-priced)
Derivation:
dear (having a high price)
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