AIRINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airiness mean? 

• AIRINESS (noun)
  The noun AIRINESS has 3 senses:

1. the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air

2. the property of something weightless and insubstantial

3. lightness in movement or manner

  Familiarity information: AIRINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("airiness" is a kind of...):

capaciousness; commodiousness; roominess; spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

Derivation:

airy (open to or abounding in fresh air)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of something weightless and insubstantial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

airiness; buoyancy

Hypernyms ("airiness" is a kind of...):

lightness; weightlessness (the property of being comparatively small in weight)

Derivation:

airy (characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air)

airy (having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lightness in movement or manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

airiness; delicacy

Hypernyms ("airiness" is a kind of...):

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

 Context examples 

Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She is a thing of light, and airiness, and joy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)