[
US
/ˈpɛnsɪvˌnɛs/
]
NOUN
- persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- deep serious thoughtfulness
How To Use pensiveness In A Sentence
- Yet this Waikiki house stressed no less than the rest in beauty, in dignity, and in expensiveness of upkeep. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
- Why he had not toiled the whole five years under the spell of opium was the expensiveness of the habit. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
- The best part about the project — inexpensiveness aside — is how you get a perfect fit for your knives without any wasted space. Build A Custom Knife Drawer Organiser Inexpensively | Lifehacker Australia
- Wrongfully, many people confuse success with wealth: they assume that a person's trimph can be concluded from the expensiveness of his or her watch, car, or house.
- The auto maker's international unit was hit by currency losses as well as demand for cheaper cars abroad, spurred in part by the relative expensiveness of American vehicles as the dollar appreciated. Stronger Dollar May Crimp U.S. Earnings
- Once, she even considered taking up with hand-painted china, but gave over the idea when she learned its expensiveness. CHAPTER IV
- That physical link - from the writer's heart and pen through the courier's hand to your own - gave a life to letters, and an intimacy born of penmanship and pensiveness.
- The expensiveness indicates to me simply that this object probably won't actually be used for the purpose it was made.
- The main characteristics of the LANDSAT data are their worldwide and repetitive coverage; synoptic view; uniformity over time and over large areas; multispectoral nature; availability in digital form for computer analysis; planimetric (near orthographic) images; the ready availability, ease of use and inexpensiveness of data (as of October 1982, a 18.5 cm × 18.5 cm colour print covering 34,000 square kilometres cost US$45). Chapter 6
- Also, a large part of the expensiveness will be due to the use of material that will make it easy to keep the bathroom clean and in order. The House Beautiful