featheriness
Light, airy texture
The quality of being feathery—light, soft, or delicate like feathers.
Featheriness describes texture, weight, or appearance: the featheriness of the meringue, a featheriness to her brushstrokes.
The word suggests something airy and insubstantial.
Having soft, fine texture
- fluffySoft and light-textured
- plushThick-pile soft fabric
- silkySmooth and lustrous
- velvetySoft and smooth-textured
cottony · fleecy · tender · cushiony · spongy · woolly · puffy · brushy
Having no heft
- buoyantAble to float
- airyLight and well-ventilated
- floatyTending to drift upward
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
gossamer · wispy · insubstantial · hovering · drifting · wafting · billowy · delicate
Thin and insubstantial
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- filmyThin and translucent
- gauzyThin and transparent
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
sheer · translucent · fine · delicate · airy · silken · cobwebby · threadlike
downy
Having soft, fine texture
velvety · cottony · fleecy · tender · cushiony · spongy · woolly · puffy · brushy · napped
weightless
Having no heft
ethereal · gossamer · wispy · insubstantial · hovering · drifting · wafting · billowy · delicate · frothy
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
diaphanous · sheer · translucent · fine · delicate · airy · silken · cobwebby · threadlike · fibrous
down
Toward lower ground
quills · pinfeathers · coverts · hackles · crest · avian · ornithological
- delicacydelicacy, daintiness, fineness, fragility, frailty
- lightness qualitiesbrightness, glow, radiance, shine, luminosity
featherinessheaviness
State of being weighty
weightiness · denseness · density · ponderousness · massiveness
feather, feathers, feathery, feathered, feathering, featherless, featherweight, unfeathered, featherier