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lubricity

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/

noun

Etymology: From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.

  1. 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.

  2. Evasiveness; shiftiness.

    Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness

  3. 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.