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English
Etymology
From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.
Pronunciation
Noun
lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)
- 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.
- Evasiveness, shiftiness.
- 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.
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