driftingness
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]driftingness (uncountable)
- 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.