"filmy" meaning in English

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      "word": "filminess"
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  "etymology_text": "From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "filmier",
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      "form": "filmiest",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy"
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          "text": "The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nOn the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station."
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      "glosses": [
        "Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy"
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        "film-like; similar to a motion picture"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪlmi/"
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    {
      "word": "filmily"
    },
    {
      "word": "filminess"
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    {
      "word": "filmy fern"
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    {
      "word": "Wilson's filmy fern"
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    },
    {
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      ],
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