Definitions for lubricity

lubricity lu·bric·i·ty

Spelling: [loo-bris-i-tee]
IPA: /luˈbrɪs ɪ ti/

Lubricity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in lubricity (bciilrtuy).

Definitions for lubricity

noun

  1. oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
  2. ability to lubricate; capacity for lubrication:
  3. instability; shiftiness; fleeting nature:
  4. lewdness; lustfulness: lasciviousness; salaciousness.
  5. something that arouses lasciviousness, especially pornography.

Origin of lubricity

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

Examples for lubricity

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.

A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.

A fish adorns his flag, and he rides a parrot or sparrow, emblematic of lubricity.

Dawn was a Mordvinian girl; in Australia she was a lubra addicted to lubricity.

Nor can I see the object of modernising the "Stomach Dance," save to impart an extra dose of lubricity into the subject.

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

The works of our standard authors in literature abound in lubricity.

Indeed, were not the tang of lubricity in this Letter too strong, we would have given in full the confession it contains.

A little more of this lubricity and there will have to be a new and resolute sifting at the fords.

I was better after my tendency to lubricity, my gloom, rage, restlessness and degradation.

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