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Slipperiness

Slipperiness \Slip"per*i*ness\, n. The quality of being slippery.

Wiktionary
slipperiness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being slippery. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being slippery.

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

  2. the quality of being a slippery rascal [syn: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness]

Usage examples of "slipperiness".

She walked there, carefully, trying not to think of the warm slipperiness that streaked down her thighs.

Her smell, the slipperiness between her legs, the way her nipples puckered and grew.

The temptation to an outburst that would flatter him with the sound of his authoritative voice had to be resisted on a night when he must be composed if he intended to shine, so he merely mentioned Lady Busshe's present, to gratify spleen by preparing the ground for dissension, and prudently acquiesced in her anticipated slipperiness.

In his memory he felt the slashing rain, the slipperiness of the wet anchor line.