Weird term 真綿感. What does it mean?


I was reading a book when I stumbled upon the term 真綿感. A trip to the
dictionary didn't give me an exact match (it says that 真綿 is "silk floss" and
that 真綿で首を絞める is "to drag things out" or "to strangle with a silk cord") and a
quick google seach showed me two different uses.

The first of those uses is applied mainly to fabric, "a silky feeling".

The second of those uses, which by context seems to be the one I'm looking
for, appears to be some kind of slang, youth or net term, but I couldn't find
it even on an online zokugo dictionary. [This is an example of use where the
word comes up three times.](http://kazekara.com/hello-my-world10/)

I had found another context where the sentence was closer to the one I found
in the book I'm reading, but I'm not sure if the site is breaking copyright,
so I better don't link to it. If you want, I can write the original sentence,
but it's broken and needs context.




真綿感 itself is not an idiomatic phrase, but this 真綿感 is a weak reference to the
well-known idiom 真綿で首を絞める, meaning "something unpleasant is happening very
slowly", "to torture slowly by an indirect means", etc. And this 真綿 (floss
silk) represents something 'indirect', 'vague', or 'fuzzy'.

In the linked example, the author was disappointed by the quality of sushi,
but did not exactly know who to blame or how to justify his anger. So this 真綿感
refers to essentially the same thing as "モヤモヤとした" just before it.

