lubricity
English
Etymology
From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/
Noun
lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)
- Slipperiness, oiliness.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 42:
- Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 42:
- Evasiveness, shiftiness.
- Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness
- Synonyms: lechery, wantonness
- 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.
Derived terms
- superlubricity
Related terms
- lubricate