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lubricity

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lu·bric·i·ty  (l-brs-t)
n.
The quality or condition of being lubricious.

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

lubricity
lewd or lecherous behavior or attitude; lasciviousness. — lubricious, adj.
See also: Sex
the condition of being uncertain or unstable. — lubricious, adj.
See also: Chance
the state or condition of having smooth surface, as to facilitate movement against another surface with a minimum of friction. — lubricious, adj.
See also: Materials, Properties of
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lubricity - feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
amativeness, sexiness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism - the arousal of feelings of sexual desire

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I think that hardly less immoral than the lubricity of literature, and its celebration of the monkey and the goat in us, is the spectacle such criticism affords of the tigerish play of satire.
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
 
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