Synonyms for lubricity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : loo-bris-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : luˈbrɪs ɪ ti

Top 10 synonyms for lubricity

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Définition of lubricity

Origin : late 15c., "lasciviousness," from Middle French lubricité or directly from Latin lubricitatem (nominative lubricitas), from lubricus "slippery" (see lubricant (adj.)). Sense of "oiliness, smoothness" is from 1540s; figurative sense of "shiftiness" is from 1610s.

As in obscenity : noun indecency, immorality; vulgarism
As in vice : noun bad habit; sin
As in lewdness : noun indecency
As in carnality : noun sensuality
As in immorality : noun corruption
As in improbity : noun corruption
As in profaneness : noun obscenity
As in raunch : noun obscenity
As in raunchiness : noun obscenity
As in ribaldry : noun obscenity
As in scatology : noun obscenity
As in scurrility : noun obscenity
As in scurrilousness : noun obscenity
As in smuttiness : noun obscenity
As in swearword : noun obscenity
As in vulgarness : noun obscenity
As in corruption : noun baseness
As in dirt : noun obscenity; immorality

Example sentences :

A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.
Extract from : « The Magic Skin » by Honore de Balzac

The works of our standard authors in literature abound in lubricity.
Extract from : « Plain Facts for Old and Young » by John Harvey Kellogg

Dawn was a Mordvinian girl; in Australia she was a lubra addicted to lubricity.
Extract from : « Modern Mythology » by Andrew Lang

A fish adorns his flag, and he rides a parrot or sparrow, emblematic of lubricity.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 » by Various

He is teres et rotundas; strokes fly from the lubricity of his polish, and the shiftings of his circular formation.
Extract from : « Tomlinsoniana » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To be sure he had for a time captured the ear of a few of our officers who were misled by his lubricity and perpetual smiles.
Extract from : « The Secrets of a Kuttite » by Edward O. Mousley

A little more of this lubricity and there will have to be a new and resolute sifting at the fords.
Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson

Nor can I see the object of modernising the "Stomach Dance," save to impart an extra dose of lubricity into the subject.
Extract from : « Oscar Wilde » by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

I was better after my tendency to lubricity, my gloom, rage, restlessness and degradation.
Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis

Indeed, were not the tang of lubricity in this Letter too strong, we would have given in full the confession it contains.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Antonyms for lubricity

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