driftingness

English

Etymology

From drifting +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/
  • Hyphenation: drift‧ing‧ness

Noun

driftingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift.
    • 1973, Brigid Brophy, The adventures of God in his search for the Black Girl, page 223:
      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.

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