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FEATHERINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does featheriness mean?
• FEATHERINESS (noun)
The noun FEATHERINESS has 1 sense:
1. a light softness
Familiarity information: FEATHERINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light softness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
downiness; featheriness; fluffiness
Hypernyms ("featheriness" is a kind of...):
softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)
Derivation:
feathery (adorned with feathers or plumes)
feathery (characterized by a covering of feathers)
feathery (resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers)
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