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Definition of dearness : 1. Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
2. The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

Synonyms:

preciosity, invaluableness, valuableness, preciousness

extravagance, outrageousness, costliness, unreasonableness, inflation, expensiveness, exorbitance, richness, inflatedness, pricelessness

figure, price, charge, tariff, tax, quotation, expense, premium, value, cost, levy, rate, toll, duty, tab, worth, damage, amount, outlay

Usage examples:

• Nor can I express with what dearness of affection he would be received in all those countreys which have suffered by those forrein scums, with what thirst of revenge, with what resolution of fidelity, with what piety, with what tears. - "Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince", Niccolò Machiavelli.
• There bought some news books, and, as every where else, hear every body complain of the dearness of coals, being at L4 per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most bitter cold, the King saying to- day that it was the coldest day he ever knew in England. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• Then came the sufferings that even distant war brought upon the citizens, the scarcity and dearness of provisions. - "Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.", Gustav Freytag.