English Dictionary

driftingness

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɹɪf.tɪŋ.nəs/

名詞

不可算名詞

The state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift.

日本語の意味

漂う性質や特徴、つまり物が漂流したり、浮遊しているような状態を指す

The driftingness of the old boat made navigating the foggy bay particularly perilous.

古い船が漂流している状態だったため、霧の立ちこめる湾での航行は特に危険だった。

意味（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.