vaporousness

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As the cipher at its center — sacrificial lamb or guilty bourgeois, you decide! — the charismatic Bruni Tedeschi makes a predictably solid impression, which is impressive given the vaporousness of her role.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Which, despite its seeming vaporousness, is hardly insignificant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gaseity -- N. gaseity†; vaporousness &c. adj.; flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification. elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Their delicate vaporousness, and rare colours, were sweet delights to the old man, and he and Mrs. Welden spent happy evenings discussing them as personal possessions.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson