driftingness

/ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/

driftingness means the state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

driftingness is pronounced /ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/.

Etymology

From drifting + -ness.

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.”