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lubricity

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lu⋅bric⋅i⋅ty

  [loo-bris-i-tee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
2. ability to lubricate; capacity for lubrication: the wonderful lubricity of this new oil.
3. instability; shiftiness; fleeting nature: the lubricity of fame and fortune.
4. lewdness; lustfulness: lasciviousness; salaciousness.
5. something that arouses lasciviousness, esp. pornography.
Origin:
1485–95; earlier lubrycyte lewdness < ML lubricitās lechery, LL: slipperiness. See lubric, -ity
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lu·bric·i·ty   (lōō-brĭs'ĭ-tē)   
n.  The quality or condition of being lubricious.

[Late Latin lūbricitās, slipperiness, from Latin lūbricus, slippery; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
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