[f. FEATHERY + -NESS.] a. Feathery state or condition. b. Lightness, fickleness.
1689. W. Bates, Sure Trial Uprightness, 130. There is such a levity and featheriness in our Minds.
1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIV. 612. Pulling off bright wings, and destroying the lustrous featheriness.
1892. L. F. Day, Nature in Ornament, iv. 53. Shorn as it is altogether of its leaves, its prickles, the very featheriness of its flower-heads, there rests not the least doubt that it is a thistle.
