softness
/ˈsɔftnəs/
UK: /ˈsɒftnəs/
softness
English
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Definition
The quality of being soft.
Etymology
From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.
Example Sentences
- "[…] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]"
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