dearness allowance
the fact of being loved by and important to someone:
Your dearness to me grows daily.
The poor are said to be suffering greatly from the dearness of bread.
The greater cheapness of machinery and fuel is counteracted by the comparative dearness of food.
She clasped her friend round the waist and told her of her dearness.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
exorbitant
gouge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitory
sight

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