What's the difference between creaminess and dreaminess?
Creaminess
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being creamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(2) For the filling, cream the remaining butter with the sugar until very creamy.
(3) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(4) When combined with zinc oxide powder, a creamy mixture results.
(5) The cystic cavities contained turbid chocolate-colored fluid or a yellowish creamy substance.
(6) After an observation period of 1 month, bacteria were found on the pulpal wall in two out of 10 cavities beneath Fluoritec and four out of 10 cavities beneath Durelon solid mixed, De Trey phosphate cement solid or creamy mixed.
(7) It is still pasteurised, to kill any bacteria, but even the semi-skimmed varieties are sold with the almost-forgotten creamy top.
(8) Photograph: Sam Jones for the Guardian For the time being, though, its success will rest on the world’s appetite for the creamy-coloured fruit of the baobab.
(9) For the dressing 1 tbsp cider or white-wine vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil Flaky sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the salad A couple of handfuls rocket leaves 80g semi-soft blue cheese 6 dates, pitted and sliced 50g hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped Whisk together the vinegar and oil until you have a creamy emulsion, then pour a tablespoon into the bottom of a bowl.
(10) It comes, as it should, in a bag of liquid, and is firm to the touch but with a good level of gentle fluffiness inside and a delicate, creamy aftertaste.
(11) With gorgeously savoury ribs, a rib-sticking Italian soup, and a creamy Keralan fish curry on the menu, it was particularly tough to pick a favourite, but for sheer alchemy, James Connery's magically melting ox cheek ragu took some beating.
(12) When the rice is plump and creamy, stir in the sugar and let it dissolve, then fold in the mascarpone.
(13) "It's beautiful, balanced, with a creamy mouthfeel," she says in tones of rapture.
(14) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(15) The diagnosis is generally easily established by the presence, in standing plasma, of a creamy chylomicron layer over a clear infranatant and by the large predominance of triglycerides over cholesterol in the plasma.
(16) Three-chilli fish Don’t be intimidated by the amount of chilli in this: the ancho is much more about smoke than heat, plus the creamy tahini sauce evens things out.
(17) It was clear, colourless, and slightly viscous by day 50, but creamy, more viscous, and mucoid by days 100 and 150.
(18) Beneath the intermediary base materials Dycal, zinc oxide-eugenol cement, Dropsin and Durelon creamy mixed, no bacteria were found.
(19) In the green and pleasant English village of Warnham, the elderflower and hawthorn are in full, scented, creamy bloom and the sun umbrellas are up in the pub’s well-tended garden.
(20) Whether creamy or semi-skimmed, from Jersey or Lancashire, milk in Britain is always tasty.
Dreaminess
Definition:
(n.) The state of being dreamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(2) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(3) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
(4) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
(5) As she spoke, McAllister, leaning on a lectern sipping water, had the dreamy-eyed look of someone listening to a nightclub crooner.
(6) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
(7) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
(8) Besides the latter movement disorders, "dreamy state", episodic amnesia ("ictal" amnesia) and amnestic "black out" as transient memory disorders have been observed.
(9) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
(10) Or the dreamy sex expert inspired by the time Demetriou swiped right on Tinder.
(11) Politics are just one element in a dreamy, flowing landscape with no clear boundaries.
(12) ADD-H children were more day-dreamy and lethargic by teacher report, more impaired in perceptual-motor speed, and had more anxiety disorders among their relatives than did ADD+H children.
(13) Memory troubles like dreamy-state are due to a simultaneous impairment of some neo-cortical areas and of Ammon's horn.
(14) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
(15) Pentazocine, 45 mg intramuscularly, caused deterioration in tracking performance and was followed by reports of depression, gloominess, dreaminess, nausea, and injection site pain.
(16) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
(17) It induces euphoria, a feeling of pleasant dreaminess.
(18) Six years ago, this dreamy spot drew British couple Emma and Ben Heywood to what would become Villa Miela, an old stone house they converted into the base for their Undiscovered Montenegro activity holidays.
(19) I even had a dreamy doctor boyfriend – a mastectomy specialist, not a gynecologist like Jon Fielding – who was ultimately unnerved by my growing contempt for the closet.
(20) He transformed Montreal from a provincial town to a global city, with a combination of dreamy ideas and tough-mindedness.