Word.ws English Dictionary

costlinesses

costlinesses is the plural of costliness.

Meaning of costliness

Noun

costliness (usually uncountable, plural costlinesses)

  1. (usually) The characteristic of being costly.
    • It was not large, but of unusual height, and fitted up with great costliness. The bookcases were ebony, inlaid with green morocco, and so were the tables, and the curtains were of crimson velvet.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270

Questions about costlinesses

What is costlinesses the plural of?
Costlinesses is the plural of costliness.

Words near costlinesses in the dictionary

  1. Costleys
  2. costlier
  3. costliest
  4. costlily
  5. costliness
  6. costlinesses
  7. Costlow
  8. Costlows
  9. costly
  10. costly colors
  11. costly colours

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: costlinesses (page history and authors); costliness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “costlinesses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/costlinesses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.