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View definitions for downiness

downiness

noun as in hairiness

noun as in lightness

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Example Sentences

When her camera pans across a downy arm, you see it but also remember — and feel — the downiness and pleasures of other arms, legs, faces.

Never was a bed so sweetly smoothed to the downiness of a swan's breast!

The downiness noticed on the underside of the Bullace leaves is here restricted to the ribs of the leaf.

There were seldom any clouds in the summer sky, and those that were there were never of that soft, high-piled white downiness that belongs to summer clouds farther south.

Plum or plump, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea of softness or downiness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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