driftfulness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From driftful +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

driftfulness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state, quality, or condition of being driftful.
    • 1998, Steve Fagin, Talkin' with Your Mouth Full:
      [] there's always another agent available there in the same room or across the bed sufficiently endowed with the capacities for thought, speech, and action to validate the vast driftfulness one or the other of them at most moments feels impending.
    • 2007, Anthony B. Pinn, Gregory Colleton, Life Sentences:
      I have lived in fear of his driftfulness. I too ran from Kansas to Minnesota to Texas and back, starting out sometimes not knowing where.