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Answer for the clue "The quality of being high-priced ", 13 letters:
expensiveness

Word definitions for expensiveness in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being high-priced [ant: inexpensiveness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.

Usage examples of expensiveness.

Those which are termed fashionable, and which imitate the expensiveness of the hotels without furnishing a tithe of their comforts, are located in the Fifth avenue, Broadway, and the Fourth avenue, or near those streets.

The middle classes have begun to rebel against the expensiveness of education, and the war will bankrupt the majority of the public schools if it continues for another year or two.