softness
noun
- property of a substance or object
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔftnəs/ / /ˈsɑftnəs/ / /ˈsɒftnəs/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.
- The quality of being soft.
“[…] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]”