lubricity
Americannoun
plural
lubricities-
oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
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ability to lubricate; capacity for lubrication.
the wonderful lubricity of this new oil.
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instability; shiftiness; fleeting nature.
the lubricity of fame and fortune.
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lewdness; lustfulness: lasciviousness; salaciousness.
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something that arouses lasciviousness, especially pornography.
noun
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formal lewdness or salaciousness
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rare smoothness or slipperiness
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capacity to lubricate
Etymology
Origin of lubricity
First recorded in 1485–95; earlier lubrycyte “lewdness,” from Medieval Latin lubricitās “lechery,” Late Latin: “slipperiness.” See lubric, -ity
Example Sentences
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From Hester Prynne to "family values" runs a line of anxious lubricity, of guilt and retribution.
From Time Magazine Archive
In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Abbe Raynal, with his lubricity and loud loose rant, has spoken his word; and already the fast-hastening generation responds to another.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
Wordsworth would never have spoken of "embellished Nature," "embroidered banks," or applied the word "elegant" to a rose, any more than he would have used "lubricity" or "stercoraceous" in verse.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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