dreaminess
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editdreaminess (usually uncountable, plural dreaminesses)
- The characteristic of being dreamy.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
- There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.