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
After that first sharp immediate relief from suspense, Lois again felt its filminess settling down upon her, all the more clingingly each time, not to be fully dissipated, after all, until Justin’s bodily return.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
After that first sharp immediate relief from suspense, Lois again felt its filminess settling down upon her.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various
Now the inundation divided itself into separate wavelets, the last lagging behind, crested by a foaming parasol, which hid all details, except a general white muslin filminess.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
