BALMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balminess mean? 

• BALMINESS (noun)
  The noun BALMINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing

  Familiarity information: BALMINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALMINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

balminess; softness

Context example:

the climate had the softness of the south of France

Hypernyms ("balminess" is a kind of...):

clemency; mildness (good weather with comfortable temperatures)

 Context examples 

One morning, however, finding that my path lay through a deep wood, I ventured to continue my journey after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)