filmy
adjective
thin and light; fine and gauzy.
filminess
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a word derived from
filmy.
Example Sentences
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Ink and transparent colors were then applied to provide a detailed picture, the filminess allowing the support to reflect light and generate a subtle glow from within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
He catches the dusty filminess of desert light, with an particular relish and talent for dawn and twilight scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2017
Having heard, she said nothing; but Lady Valleys noticed with alarm that over her eyes had come suddenly the peculiar filminess of age.
From The Patrician by John Galsworthy
Her sheer, white gown fell from sloping, well powdered shoulders and its filminess softened wonderfully the lines which were beginning to harden her face.
From The Lady Doc by Caroline Lockhart
Extreme distance of large objects always characterized by very sharp outline.facts forced on our notice; transparency, or filminess of mass, and excessive sharpness of edge.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
