silky
The cheese gave the salad a lovely creamy silkiness.
the sun-warmed silkiness of a horse's neck
The fish are prized for the silkiness of their flesh.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Soft and fluffy
anneal
as smooth as silk/a baby's bottomidiom
billowy
cottony
feathery
frothily
frothy
gauzy
lathery
limp
soften
softener
softness
soggily
sogginess
spongy
ultra-soft
velvet
velvety
workable

Examples of silkiness

silkiness
There's a certain kind of thrill you get from stroking it, and feeling its silkiness run through your fingers.
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The length and silkiness of his ears are signs of his gentle breeding.
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The coat is hard in texture, without any silkiness.
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The silkiness of tissue of the petals, and their semi-transparency in some colors, and the delicate fringes of some varieties, are great charms.
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The silkiness of her hair trembled against his forehead.
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It was the whiteness of her neck that he remembered, the narrowness of her shoulders and the silkiness of her pale gold hair.
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A telegram from him will smooth the magistrate to the silkiness of oil.
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The shade of each is exactly the same--the same silkiness and glow through it; it is very peculiar.
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A rawhide lariat smoothly braided, oiled into supple silkiness, dangled through.
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Yet quite as distinctly were the silkiness of his black hair, the well-set, finely cut features, the sparse eyebrows, and the curling nostrils, marks of the aristocrat.
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The stem, which may attain four feet, or half that height, is usually branched; and the entire plant is often downy to the point of silkiness.
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