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dewiness

  • a word derived from dewy.
    dewy
    adjective
    moist with or as if with dew.

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She doesn’t push it, but as a study in evaporating dewiness, she’s a guaranteed heartbreaker.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2015

For this production — directed by a keen-eyed Scott Elliott and featuring a capable, callow-seeming young cast whose ostensible dewiness disappears when the blood starts to flow — deserves your full attention.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015

What hits you first is the dewiness of Fawn Ledesma's Juliet, the lovestruck maiden of the House of Capulet.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2012

A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a latent dewiness in the air that made the clear moonlight as fresh and invigorating as a winter's morning.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various