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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
Alice Morse Earle

Meaning of "costliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COSTLINESS

costliness  [ˈkɒstlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COSTLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Costliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COSTLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of costliness in the English dictionary

The definition of costliness in the dictionary is the fact of being costly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COSTLINESS


beastliness
ˈbiːstlɪnɪs
comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
ghastliness
ˈɡɑːstlɪnɪs
ghostliness
ˈɡəʊstlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
portliness
ˈpɔːtlɪnɪs
saintliness
ˈseɪntlɪnɪs
sightliness
ˈsaɪtlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
sprightliness
ˈspraɪtlɪnɪs
stateliness
ˈsteɪtlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
uncourtliness
ʌnˈkɔːtlɪnɪs
unknightliness
ʌnˈnaɪtlɪnɪs
unsightliness
ʌnˈsaɪtlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COSTLINESS

costermonger
costing
costive
costively
costiveness
costless
costlessly
costlier
costliest
costly
costmaries
costmary
Costner
costotomies
costotomy
costrel
costs
costume
costume ball

WORDS THAT END LIKE COSTLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of costliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «costliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COSTLINESS

Find out the translation of costliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of costliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «costliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高价
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

riquezas;
570 millions of speakers

English

costliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महंगाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغلاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дороговизна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

costliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহার্ঘতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cherté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Harga diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kostspieligkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

犠牲の大きさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

costliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ongkosipun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quí giá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

costliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वस्त किंमत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pahalılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costo eccessivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

costliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дорожнеча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scumpete
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δαπανηρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kosbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

costliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

costliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of costliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COSTLINESS»

The term «costliness» is normally little used and occupies the 118.434 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COSTLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «costliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «costliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about costliness

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QUOTES WITH «COSTLINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word costliness.
1
Alice Morse Earle
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSTLINESS»

Discover the use of costliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to costliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hospital Cost Analysis
These five equations can then be used to obtain predicted values of average cost per day and costliness per day ratios for each hospital. The use of these results together with the costliness per case ratios and the Relative Stay Index will now ...
J. R. Butler, 1995
2
The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach
I have interpreted a “practicalities” approach in Miller's very specific way, accepting Impossibility, but rejecting Costliness 1, and Costliness 2. But surely there are more charitable accounts of a rights-based approach to the basic minimum.
Dale Dorsey, 2012
3
The Future of Disability in America
better health and underpredicts the costliness of care for those in poorer health, as indicated by selected diagnoses or use of inpatient care or costliness in a previous year. Table 8-5 shows examples of how much Medicare overpaid or ...
Marilyn J. Field, Committee on Disability in America, Alan Jette, 2007
4
Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an ...
On this basis, then, the costliness claim can be defended: fair, effective collective action can be expected to decrease the cost to each individual of fulfilling her moral duties in respect to climate change. Now, however, we must factor in Chapter ...
Elizabeth Cripps, 2013
5
Quantifying the Agri-Food Supply Chain
If a firm decides it is dissatisfied with the current strategy from a costliness viewpoint, the second critical question becomes: Would an alternative strategy reduce the perceived costliness of coordination (Node 2, Figure 2)? The answer to this ...
Christien J.M. Ondersteijn, Jo H.M. Wijnands, Ruud B.M. Huirne, 2006
6
Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts
1 believe the secret behind the mention of costliness in this story does not lie in the works-driven ideas that costly perfume is "perfect perfume," that pouring better perfume than others pour is what counts and that spending extravagantly by ...
Harold M. Best, 2003
7
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation: ...
Figure 7.1 demonstrates that each society will view the average benefits from converting its lands as positive (although declining because of prior conversions and saturated markets) and the marginal costliness (the 'supply curve of ...
Timothy Swanson, 1998
8
Corruption in Corporate America: Who is Responsible? who ...
The major complaint against Sarbanes-Oxley is its costliness, i.e., the direct monetary expenditures by covered public corporations to meet its new and enhanced regulatory requirements. The particular portion of the law which is the major ...
Abraham Leo Gitlow, 2005
9
Issues in Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations
Step 5: Estimating the Costliness of the Factors This can be viewed as an estimate of how much new cost is created when one of the factors increases by one unit for a particular cost. (For example, how much more nursing labor cost is incurred ...
Steven A. Finkler, David Marc Ward, 1999
10
Adoption Process and Impacts of Information and ...
This was prompted by the realization of the scarcity and costliness of information in developing countries. Informational scarcity and costliness are presumed to have significant detrimental consequences. ICTs are suggested to alleviate the ...
Nurullo Makhmudov, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COSTLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term costliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
States Limit Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs For High-Priced Drugs
They also require special handling, such as refrigeration, and often must be administered intravenously, adding to their costliness. On average ... «Physicians News Digest, Jul 15»
2
July 4: Vaches Canadiennes – and other letters to the ROB editor
We need more imaginative programs that reduce the costliness of entry into dairying, but destruction of the supply management system will ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
Roaming charges – gone in 2017
They're not convinced that there's anything good in reducing the costliness of people using their phones throughout Europe, unsurprisingly. «Bitterwallet, Jun 15»
4
Morning MoneyBeat: Valuations and Rates Could Combine to Hurt …
The S&P 500's price-to-earnings ratio for the last 12 months, one measure of stocks' costliness, is at its loftiest level since 2004 and 8.5% above ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
5
Auto insurers blasted for inflating rates with astronomic advertising …
... the best evidence of that advancement is GEICO's “Push It” ad, which aired during this year's Super Bowl and broke records for its costliness. «Insurance Business America, Jun 15»
6
Davao, Valenzuela among safest Southeast Asian cities
Here, we take into account the costliness of common crime and violence as well as terrorism, and the extent to which police services can be ... «Tempo, Jun 15»
7
Shall We Cancel Father's Day?
And finally, let's remind our boys on Father's Day of the nobility and costliness of their God-given vocation to become truly worthy of the title, ... «Aleteia EN, Jun 15»
8
MoneyBeat: Buffett Indicator Flares
... annual meeting in May, Mr. Buffett said the level of interest rates going forward is what is going to shape his view on the costliness of stocks. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
9
Andy Dalton among NFL QBs Under Most Pressure in 2015
Others would also say yes due to the costliness of his contract. Dalton was given a six-year, $96 million deal in 2014 that will see him get paid ... «Cincy Jungle, Jun 15»
10
UFC 188: Cathal Pendred on high cost of training camp; has fight …
Irish UFC welterweight, Cathal Pendred discusses a variety of topics including the costliness of training camp, advantages of training with John ... «Bloody Elbow, Jun 15»

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