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Definition of Featheriness
1. Noun. A light softness.
Generic synonyms: Softness
Derivative terms: Downy, Downy, Feathery, Feathery, Feathery, Fluffy
Definition of Featheriness
1. n. The state or condition of being feathery.
Definition of Featheriness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being feathery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Featheriness
Literary usage of Featheriness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"The featheriness of the maple, and the arrowy straightness and pyramidal form of
the cryptomeria, please me better than all else; but why criticise ? ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1862)
"The hart's- tongue fern, on the corbel opposed to the mallow, by the same, curls
its fronds round, doubling its plume-like involutions, the featheriness of ..."
3. The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia by Eleanor Franklin Egan (1918)
"... I very likely was leaning against the starboard rail gazing at the opposite
bank of the river and wondering at the fringy featheriness of the palm-trees ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1886)
"gentle summer breezes for dispersal, and which float away often for miles together,
innumerable gradations of featheriness exist, some species having the ..."
5. The Enchanted Woods: And Other Essays on the Genius of Places by Vernon Lee (1905)
"... reduced to skeletons by the past heat ; an autumn in midsummer, trees barely
outlined in brown featheriness, with a soft cinder of dry leaves underfoot. ..."
6. The Practical Flower Garden by Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1911)
"When it is in bloom, the great featheriness and peculiar pinkish gray of the
blossoms make the bush look as if it were enveloped in a cloud of smoke or ..."
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