Dictionary

lubricity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/ (UK)
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Etymology

From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.

Meanings

1. (countable, of a fluid, uncountable) Degree of ability to lubricate.
   • Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness
   • Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs. 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 42:
2. (countable, of a person, uncountable) Evasiveness; shiftiness.
   • Near-synonyms: slipperiness, slickness, oiliness
3. (countable, of a person, uncountable) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness.
   • all the outrageous lubricities of Phallic worship (III, xvi) 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
   • 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.
   • Apart from the bull and the serpent, which were so universally worshipped as to call for consideration in other sections of this work, the goat ranked as one of the most popular, this animal's excessive lubricity marking it as an especially suitable representative of any generative or reproductive deity. 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
   • Among the large number of characters are [...] young boys and old knowledgeable beldames familiar with every lubricity, every love charm and potion. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62:

Forms

Coordinates

viscosity

Deriveds

superlubricity

Relateds

lubed · lubricator · lubricate · lubricated · lube · lubed up · lubrication

Synonyms

slipperiness · slickness · wantonness · slipperiness · slickness · oiliness · lechery · oiliness