lubricity

From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /luːˈbɹɪsɪti/

lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)

1. Slipperiness, oiliness.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 42:

     Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.

2. Evasiveness, shiftiness.
3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness

   Synonyms: lechery, wantonness

   • James Anthony Froude

     In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.

• superlubricity

• lubricate