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airiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun airiness has 3 senses
- airiness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air; Array is a kind of capaciousness, commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness
- airiness(n = noun.attribute) buoyancy - the property of something weightless and insubstantial; Array is a kind of lightness, weightlessness
- airiness(n = noun.attribute) delicacy - lightness in movement or manner; Array is a kind of life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness
Derived form adjective airy1
Derived forms adjective airy4, adjective airy3
CIDE DICTIONARY
airiness, n.
- The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat. [1913 Webster]
- Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
airiness
Prospero, airy nothing, airy texture, appearance, ascent, attenuation, bodilessness, bounce, breeziness, bubbliness, buoyancy, carefreeness, chirpiness, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, delusiveness, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, downiness, draftiness, ethereality, exiguity, exility, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fineness, flimsiness, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, frailty, frothiness, gauziness, gentleness, gossameriness, gracility, gustiness, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, insolidity, insubstantiality, intangibility, jauntiness, laciness, lack of weight, levitation, levity, light heart, lightheartedness, lightness, lightsomeness, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, mistiness, paperiness, perkiness, pertness, prestidigitation, rareness, rarity, resilience, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, slenderness, slightness, slimness, softness, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, unactuality, unconcreteness, unheaviness, unreality, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, vagueness, volatility, wateriness, weakness, weightlessness, windiness, wispiness, yeastiness
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