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Answer for the clue "The quality possessed by something with a great price or value ", 10 letters:
costliness

Word definitions for costliness in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Costliness \Cost"li*ness\ (-l?-n?s), n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value [syn: dearness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being costly.

Usage examples of costliness.

As the Steward left, Lord Gast took up a tale, whose matter Taran found difficult to follow, concerning the costliness of his food and his openhandedness toward travelers.

Such congestions are merely the measure of the general inaccessibility and insecurity and costliness of contemporary life, an awkward transitory phase in the first beginnings of the travel age of mankind.

You have no idea of the expense and trouble of title, and the inevitable costliness, my dear Sir, of all conveyancing operations.