Dearness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Costliness; high price, or a higher price than the customary one.
  • noun. Fondness; nearness to the heart or affections; great value in esteem and confidence; tender love.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
  • noun. Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of having great value or price.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
  • Word Usage
    "Some of the epitaphs were beautiful, showing that tenderness for the friends who had died, that longing to do them justice, to fully acknowledge their virtues and dearness, which is so touching, and so unmistakable even under the stiff, quaint expressions and formal words which were thought suitable to be chiselled on the stones, so soon to be looked at carelessly by the tearless eyes of strangers."
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