Dearness [noun]
Definition of Dearness:
nearness in feeling
Sentence/Example of Dearness:
The difficulties which impede mine-working in these parts are caused chiefly by the dearness of labor and the scarcity of fuel.
He had spoken of the former dearness between himself and this gentleman, tied upon the knot of his virtues.
Invention and discovery have replaced scarcity and dearness with abundance and cheapness.
But there is dearness in this mood, which is indifferent and scornful and slightingly patient, though it wants splendor.
She passed, brushed lightly against him, as he stood trembling with the sense of her dearness to him.
The length of the siege produced dearness of provisions, which had not been carefully husbanded from the start.
Its dearness to him was that it was peaceable as well as efficient.
I wanted to tell him that you were mine—that all your sweetness and dearness belonged to me.
Carestié, dearness, stands in contrast to the Italian carestia.
They made observations on the plays at the theatre, on the government, the dearness of living, and the frauds of commerce.