driftingness

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driftingness

/ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/

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From drifting + -ness.

noun

uncountable The state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift. 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.
Similar: obliquation, tralineation

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@misc{driftingness_2026,
  title = {driftingness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/driftingness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}