lubricity

[ loo-bris-i-tee ]

/ luˈbrɪs ɪ ti /

oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.

ability to lubricate; capacity for lubrication: the wonderful lubricity of this new oil.

instability; shiftiness; fleeting nature: the lubricity of fame and fortune.

lewdness; lustfulness: lasciviousness; salaciousness.

something that arouses lasciviousness, especially pornography.

Origin of lubricity

1485–95; earlier lubrycyte lewdness < Medieval Latin lubricitās lechery, Late Latin: slipperiness. See lubric, -ity

He is teres et rotundas; strokes fly from the lubricity of his polish, and the shiftings of his circular formation.

Tomlinsoniana |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A little more of this lubricity and there will have to be a new and resolute sifting at the fords.

Judges and Ruth |Robert A. Watson
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.

The Secrets of a Kuttite |Edward O. Mousley
Nor can I see the object of modernising the "Stomach Dance," save to impart an extra dose of lubricity into the subject.

Oscar Wilde |Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.

The Magic Skin |Honore de Balzac

lubricity

/ (luːˈbrɪsɪtɪ) /

formal, or literary lewdness or salaciousness

rare smoothness or slipperiness

capacity to lubricate

C15 (lewdness), C17 (slipperiness): from Old French lubricité, from Medieval Latin lubricitās, from Latin, from lūbricus slippery