DREAMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dreaminess mean? 

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

1. a relaxed comfortable feeling

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREAMINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A relaxed comfortable feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

dreaminess; languor

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

easiness; relaxation (a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry)

Derivation:

dreamy (dreamy in mood or nature)

dreamy (lacking spirit or liveliness)

 Context examples 

There was a far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The calm and control which were so much a part of her seemed to have been communicated to the blankets, so that I was aware of a soft dreaminess and content, and of an oval face and brown eyes framed in a fisherman’s cap and tossing against a background now of grey cloud, now of grey sea, and then I was aware that I had been asleep.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She watched him for a moment with artistic pleasure, thinking how like an Italian he looked, as he lay basking in the sun with uncovered head and eyes full of southern dreaminess, for he seemed to have forgotten her and fallen into a reverie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was a beautiful creature, almost feminine in the pleasing lines of his figure, and there was a softness and dreaminess in his large eyes which seemed to contradict his well-earned reputation for strife and action.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)