Driftingness
//ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift. uncountable
"They moved, lightly chattering among themselves, with the soft driftingness of the saris they had had to discard in favour of wimples, from beneath which gleamed cow-brown eyes and an occasional jewelled caste mark."
Example
More examples"They moved, lightly chattering among themselves, with the soft driftingness of the saris they had had to discard in favour of wimples, from beneath which gleamed cow-brown eyes and an occasional jewelled caste mark."
Etymology
From drifting + -ness.
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