driftingness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/
Etymology
From drifting + -ness.
Meanings
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(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.
1973, Brigid Brophy, The adventures of God in his search for the Black Girl, page 223: