the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being downy.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being downy.
n. Knowingness; cunningness; artfulness; cuteness.
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n. a light softness
Word Usage
"And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence."