powderiness

7.6

A very soft, dry feeling like fine dust on a surface

noun
/ˈpaʊdərɪnəs/

: polvo

The powderiness of the freshly fallen snow made it look like a winter wonderland.

Also, I feel like the powderiness and the texture of it actually falls down on your shirt.

Examples

Also, I feel like the powderiness and the texture of it actually falls down on your shirt.

Tati
So now I'm just dusting away some of the powderiness from that secret brightening powder.
I want to pop over to this color right here and see again, a lot of powderiness is tapping off.
It takes away any powderiness that you might have there and just adds that shine.
After cooking, the powderiness of the flour covered the countertops.
He noticed the powderiness of the makeup as he applied it to his face.

Synonyms

flouriness

vspowderiness

7.8

A soft, fine, powdery feel like baking powder

is a general dust-like very fine texture not limited to food

mealiness

vspowderiness

7.0

A dry, crumbly texture like fine powder in food

is about a very fine dust-like texture rather than dry crumbliness

dustiness

vspowderiness

2.8

The amount of dust on something

is the inherent very fine dust-like quality rather than mere surface dust

Antonyms

solid

325 1.0

Firm and hard so it keeps its shape, not liquid

compactness

1 4.4

How closely things are packed so they take little space

How Powdery

powderiness

7.6

fineness

1 5.3

granularity

Specialized

7.2

coarseness

4.1

Surface Forms

powderiness singular

powderinesses plural

Morphology

powderiness = powdery (transparent) = powder + y + ness

The noun is formed from the adjective 'powdery' by adding the productive suffix '-ness', yielding the expected meaning 'the quality of being powdery'.

Etymology

Powderiness comes from powder, which comes from an old Latin word pulvis meaning 'dust', so it describes the state of being very fine and dust-like.