Slipperiness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being slippery. uncountable

    "He struggled out of the water, by clawing into the slipperiness, and climbing, not knowing if he was crawling onto the body of a sea serpent."

  2. 2
    the quality of being a slippery rascal wordnet
  3. 3
    The result or product of being slippery. countable
  4. 4
    a slippery smoothness wordnet

Synonyms

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lubricityartartfulnessartificecanninesscleverness

Example

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"He struggled out of the water, by clawing into the slipperiness, and climbing, not knowing if he was crawling onto the body of a sea serpent."

Etymology

From slippery + -ness.

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