dearness
/ˈdɪə(ɹ)nəs/
dearness noun: the quality of having great value or price.
Noun
dearness (usually uncountable, plural dearnesses)
- The quality of having great value or price.
- But brothers pass not into noble friendships upon the stock of that relation: they have fair dispositions and advantages, and are more easy and ready to ferment into the greatest dearnesses, if all things else be answerable.1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
- Customers in Padgett Street did not generally, one might infer, express approval on the score of dearness.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
dearness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
dearness in Tamil
- dearness, preciousness
- அருமை arumai
- dearness, difficulty
- பெருமை perumai
dearness in Urdu
- گرانی, مہنگائی
dearness in Bengali
- উচ্চ মূল্য, দাম থাকার গুণ
dearness in Malayalam
- ബഹുമൂല്യത, പ്രേമം, വാത്സല്യം, പ്രീതി, ദുർലഭത
More languagesFewer languages
- dearness in Kannada
- ನಲ್ಮೆ, ಅಕ್ಕರೆ, ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಬೆಲೆ, ಪ್ರೀತಿವಿಶ್ವಾಸ
- dearness in Arabic
- غَلَاة ḡalāh
Forms of dearness
| plural | dearnesses |
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Origin of dearness
From dear + -ness.
Questions about dearness
- What does dearness mean?
- Dearness means the quality of having great value or price.
- What is dearness in Tamil?
- Dearness in Tamil is அருமை (arumai), பெருமை (perumai). See Dearness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dearness?
- Dearness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dearness?
- Dearness is pronounced /ˈdɪə(ɹ)nəs/.
- What is the plural of dearness?
- The plural of dearness is dearnesses.
Words near dearness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dearness (page history and authors); அருமை (Tamil) (page history and authors); dearness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dearness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dearness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dearness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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