Dictionary Definition
airiness
Noun
1 the property of something spacious and
abounding in fresh air
2 the property of something weightless and
insubstantial [syn: buoyancy]
3 lightness in movement or manner [syn: delicacy]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /ˈeə(r)ˌɪi.nəs/ /"e@(r)%i:.n@s/
Noun
- Light or airy in quality or manner.
- insubstantiality
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Prospero, airy nothing, airy
texture, appearance,
ascent, attenuation, bodilessness, bounce, breeziness, bubbliness, buoyancy, carefreeness, chirpiness, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, delusiveness, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, downiness, draftiness, ethereality, exiguity, exility, fallaciousness, false
appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fineness, flimsiness, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, frailty, frothiness, gauziness, gentleness, gossameriness, gracility, gustiness, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, impalpability, imponderability,
incorporeality,
insolidity, insubstantiality,
intangibility,
jauntiness, laciness, lack of weight,
levitation, levity, light heart, lightheartedness,
lightness, lightsomeness, magic, magic act, magic show,
magician, mistiness, paperiness, perkiness, pertness, prestidigitation,
rareness, rarity, resilience, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand,
slenderness,
slightness, slimness, softness, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance,
subtility, subtilty, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, unactuality, unconcreteness, unheaviness, unreality, unsolidity, unsubstantiality,
unsubstantialness,
vagueness, volatility, wateriness, weakness, weightlessness, windiness, wispiness, yeastiness