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Lubricity

Lubricity \Lu*bric"i*ty\, n. [L. lubricitas: cf. F. lubricit['e].]

  1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.
    --Ray.

  2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.
    --L'Estrange.

  3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
    --Sir T. Herbert.

    As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lubricity

late 15c., "lasciviousness," from Middle French lubricité or directly from Latin lubricitatem (nominative lubricitas), from lubricus "slippery" (see lubricant (adj.)). Sense of "oiliness, smoothness" is from 1540s; figurative sense of "shiftiness" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
lubricity

n. 1 slipperiness, oiliness. 2 evasiveness, shiftiness. 3 lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lechery, wantonness.

Wikipedia
Lubricity

Lubricity is the measure of the reduction in friction and or wear by a lubricant. The study of lubrication and wear mechanisms is called tribology.

Usage examples of "lubricity".

As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum, the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair.

In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.

I saw that this interesting girl's misfortune proceeded from her ignorance, her candour, her perfect innocence, and a foolish feeling of pity, which made her grant this monster of lubricity a thing of which she thought little because she had never been in love.

Bestiality was hardly in his line, when he considered it degrading to sample the lubricity of even nonblack human females.