balmy
adjective
mild and refreshing; soft; soothing.
balminess
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a word derived from
balmy.
Example Sentences
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Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, slamming a trapdoor over them, she restores Paris to happy sanity, herself returns to contented balminess.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
The love of nature, a new-born flower, blooms in my heart, and diffuses a sweet balminess unknown before.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
It seemed to him a cherub was fluttering its wings against his cheek, diffusing a peace and balminess that no language could describe.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Caroline Lee Hentz
