dearness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)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.”

   “Customers in Padgett Street did not generally, one might infer, express approval on the score of dearness.”