wispiness
Thin, floating quality
Wispiness is the quality of being thin, delicate, or insubstantial—like wisps of smoke or cloud.
It describes hair that floats in fine strands, fog that barely clings to a hillside, or voices that trail off into near-silence.
The word often suggests fragility or ethereal lightness: the wispiness of her bangs, a certain wispiness to his arguments.
Verge of swooning
- thinnessState of minimal width
- tenuousnessLack of strength or substance
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
- fragilityEase of breaking
subtlety · sheerness · flimsiness · sparseness · scantiness · meagerness · hints · suggestion
Filmy, delicate material
- cobwebbyDraped in spider silk
- featheryLight and soft-textured
- downyHaving soft, fine texture
- fluffySoft and light-textured
filmy · gauzy · silky · diaphanous · frothy · lacy · soft · sheer
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- vaporousLike a gas, diffuse
- nebulousUnclear and formless
incorporeal · intangible · otherworldly · dreamlike · hazy · shadowy · apparitional · wraithlike
Lasting very briefly
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- passingMoving by or temporary
fugitive · vanishing · dissipating · fading · short-lived · impermanent · dissolving · evaporating
faintness
Verge of swooning
- thinnessState of minimal width
- tenuousnessLack of strength or substance
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
fragility · subtlety · sheerness · flimsiness · sparseness · scantiness · meagerness · hints · suggestion · breath
gossamer
Filmy, delicate material
fluffy · filmy · gauzy · silky · diaphanous · frothy · lacy · soft · sheer · airy
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- vaporousLike a gas, diffuse
nebulous · incorporeal · intangible · otherworldly · dreamlike · hazy · shadowy · apparitional · wraithlike · elusive
ephemeral
Lasting very briefly
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
passing · fugitive · vanishing · dissipating · fading · short-lived · impermanent · dissolving · evaporating · drifting
- delicacydelicacy, daintiness, fineness, fragility, frailty
- fragilityfragility, brittleness, delicacy, frailty, feebleness
wispinessdensity
Mass-to-volume ratio
thickness · solidity · substantiality · bulk · compactness
wispinesssolidity
Firmness of structure
firmness · sturdiness · robustness · rigidity · hardness
wispinessheftiness
State of being heavy
weightiness · heaviness · ponderousness · massiveness · bulkiness
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