lubricity
noun
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Pronunciation: /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/
noun
Etymology: From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.
- Degree of ability to lubricate.
“Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness”
“Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.”
- Evasiveness; shiftiness.
“Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness”
- Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness.
“all the outrageous lubricities of Phallic worship (III, xvi)”
“1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.”