expensiveness

Noun

 * 1) The state of being expensive; the entailing of great expense.
 * 2) * 1743,, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, London: G. Whitfield, 1796, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part II, III.1, p. 212,
 * Surely you cannot be ignorant, that the sinfulness of fine apparel lies chiefly in the expensiveness. In that it is robbing God and the Poor; it is defrauding the fatherless and the widow; it is wasting the food of the hungry, and with-holding his raiment from the naked, to consume it on our own lusts.
 * 1) * 1922,, , Chapter 14: Formal Dinners,
 * Enchanting dining-rooms and tables have been achieved with an outlay amounting to comparatively nothing. ¶ There is a dining-room in a certain small New York house that is quite as inviting as it is lacking in expensiveness.

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Teuerheit, Kostspieligkeit,
 * Indonesian:
 * Latvian: dārdzība, dārgums
 * Serbo-Croatian: skupoća
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: tchirté,