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/ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/ · noun
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.
Use driftingness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Driftingness means The state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift..
Common synonyms include obliquation, tralineation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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