driftingness
noun/ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/
Etymology From drifting + -ness.
1
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.1973, Brigid Brophy, The adventures of God in his search for the Black Girl, page 223:
- Synonyms
- obliquation, tralineation