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Slickness

Slickness \Slick"ness\, n. The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

Wiktionary
slickness

n. The property of being slick.

WordNet
slickness
  1. n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]

  2. a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness]

  3. a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" [syn: slick, slipperiness, slip]

Usage examples of "slickness".

The middle-aged handicap hurdler plodding sleepily round the ring was the third Axminster horse I had ridden during the week, and I had already grown to appreciate the sleekness and slickness of his organization.

Because she wore no pessary, the deep clutching of her vulva around him was direct and intense, a silky, heavenly slickness that drew him on and on.

She saw the oily slickness of moisture covering his skin and the pearlescent garment.

So he needed to show that he had the surface slickness, the smoothness, that a holovision commentator had to have.

You could have real polyform furniture that changed not only its shape but its texture, like Karatands do, over a range from fur to stainless-steel slickness.