flocculence

noun

1. (uncountable)The condition of being flocculent; wooliness, flakiness.

   “This paragraph is remarkable for its own flocculence. The Times implies, without quite saying it, both that it approves of Obama's evasions […] and that it would approve if he took a different approach[…]”

2. (countable, uncountable)A substance or condition that causes a surface to be flocculent; fluff, flakes.

   “Branches and leaves become covered with the waxy filaments creating a flocculence (wool-like tufts) that indicates a heavy infestation. Rain will wash away the flocculence, but nymphs will soon secrete more.”

   “However, its nymphs (immatures) are easy to detect from the copious amounts of waxy flocculence (white fluff) that they secrete onto melaleuca leaves and stems.”

   “elastic, thinly skinned, easy to rupture, with purple brown flocculences when torn by hand.”