Antonyms for lubricity
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : loo-bris-i-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : luˈbrɪs ɪ ti |
- blessing
- chastity
- cleanliness
- cleanness
- compliment
- continency
- decency
- delight
- development
- forthrightness
- good
- good point
- goodness
- growth
- happiness
- honesty
- honor
- improvement
- innocence
- joy
- kindness
- modesty
- morality
- obedience
- pleasantry
- propriety
- pureness
- purification
- purity
- right
- sterility
- strength
- tastefulness
- truthfulness
- uprightness
- virtue
- wholesomeness
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for lubricity
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- bawdry
- bestiality
- blasphemy
- blight
- blueness
- boorishness
- brutishness
- carnality
- chicanery
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruption
- corruptness
- curse
- debasement
- debauchery
- decadence
- decay
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- degradation
- depravity
- dirt
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- dishonesty
- dissoluteness
- double-dealing
- epithet
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evildoing
- evilness
- expletive
- filth
- filthiness
- flagitiousness
- fleshliness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- fourberie
- fraud
- grossness
- ill
- immodesty
- immorality
- impropriety
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- indecency
- indelicacy
- infamy
- iniquity
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- lewdness
- libidinousness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- lubricity
- lust
- lustfulness
- maleficence
- malignance
- oath
- obscenity
- offense
- outrage
- pederasty
- perversion
- porn
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- profligacy
- prurience
- pruriency
- raunchiness
- ribaldry
- rot
- ruttishness
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sensuality
- sinfulness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- squalor
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- transgression
- trespass
- turpitude
- unchastity
- venality
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainousness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- vulgarness
- wantonness
- wickedness
- wrong
- X-rating
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