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driftfulness

driftfulness noun: the state, quality, or condition of being driftful.

Noun

driftfulness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state, quality, or condition of being driftful.
    • […] there's always another agent available there in the same room or across the bed sufficiently endowed with the capacities for thought, speech, and action to validate the vast driftfulness one or the other of them at most moments feels impending.1998, Steve Fagin, Talkin' with Your Mouth Full
    • I have lived in fear of his driftfulness. I too ran from Kansas to Minnesota to Texas and back, starting out sometimes not knowing where.2007, Anthony B. Pinn, Gregory Colleton, Life Sentences

Origin of driftfulness

From driftful + -ness.

Questions about driftfulness

What does driftfulness mean?
Driftfulness means the state, quality, or condition of being driftful.
What part of speech is driftfulness?
Driftfulness is a noun.

Words near driftfulness in the dictionary

  1. driftest
  2. drifteth
  3. driftfish
  4. driftfishes
  5. driftful
  6. driftfulness
  7. driftier
  8. driftiest
  9. driftily
  10. driftin'
  11. driftiness

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