lubricity

English

Etymology

From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/

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Noun

lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)

1. Slipperiness, oiliness.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 42:

     Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.

2. Evasiveness, shiftiness.
3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness

   Synonyms: lechery, wantonness

   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:

     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.

Derived terms

• superlubricity

Related terms

• lubricate