Exact Match:
- slickness
- a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- greasiness
collapse - consisting of or covered with oil related words >
- downiness,
- evenness,
- fatness,
- fattiness,
- flatness,
- frictionlessness,
- glabriety,
- glabrousness,
- glossiness,
- levelness,
- lubricity,
- oiliness,
- pinguidity,
- regularity,
- richness,
- saponaceousness,
- saponacity,
- satininess,
- sebaceousness,
- silkiness,
- sleekness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- smoothness,
- soapiness,
- suavity,
- unctuousness,
- uniformity,
- velvetiness
- meaningfulness
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- the quality of having great value or significance related words >
- articulateness,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- effective style,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- graphicness,
- intelligibility,
- interpretability,
- meatiness,
- oratory,
- pithiness,
- pregnancy,
- readability,
- rhetoric,
- sententiousness,
- significance,
- significancy,
- significantness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- suggestiveness,
- vividness
- shrewdness
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- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) related words >
- Italian hand,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- discernment,
- discrimination,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- keenness,
- low cunning,
- one-upmanship,
- pawkiness,
- penetration,
- percipience,
- perspicacity,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- trickiness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- command of words,
- effective style,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- form of speech,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- graphicness,
- inflation,
- literary style,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- trick,
- vein,
- vividness,
- way
- articulateness,
- big mouth,
- candor,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- effective style,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- frankness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of expression,
- glibness,
- graphicness,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- meaningfulness,
- openness,
- oratory,
- prolixity,
- rhetoric,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- slush,
- smoothness,
- sociability,
- spate of words,
- talkativeness,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- volubility,
- windiness
- oratory
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- addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory" related words >
- Lady chapel,
- address,
- articulateness,
- articulation,
- chantry,
- chapel,
- chapel of ease,
- chapel royal,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- enunciation,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fluency,
- forensics,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grandiloquence,
- graphicness,
- homiletics,
- lecturing,
- magniloquence,
- meaningfulness,
- oratorium,
- platform oratory,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rhetoric,
- sacellum,
- sacrament chapel,
- sacrarium,
- school chapel,
- side chapel,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stump speaking,
- vividness,
- wordcraft
- glibness
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- a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" related words >
- articulateness,
- big mouth,
- blandness,
- butter,
- candor,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- effective style,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fair words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- frankness,
- fulsomeness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- graphicness,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- meaningfulness,
- oiliness,
- openness,
- oratory,
- prolixity,
- rhetoric,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- slush,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- sociability,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- spate of words,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- talkativeness,
- unctuousness,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- volubility,
- windiness
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- cageyness,
- calculation,
- callidity,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- chariness,
- circumspection,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- deviousness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- false economy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forehandedness,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- foxiness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- gamesmanship,
- gingerliness,
- good management,
- guardedness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- husbandry,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- judiciousness,
- low cunning,
- management,
- mindfulness,
- one-upmanship,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pawkiness,
- precaution,
- prior consultation,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- prudentialness,
- readiness,
- regardfulness,
- resourcefulness,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slowness to act,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solicitude,
- sophistry,
- sparingness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tentativeness,
- thoroughness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- trickiness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- unwastefulness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- evenness
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- the quality of being balanced
- a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
- the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) related words >
- abnegation,
- abstinence,
- accordance,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- calm,
- calmness,
- clockwork regularity,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- conservatism,
- consistency,
- consonance,
- constancy,
- constraint,
- continence,
- continuity,
- control,
- cool,
- correspondence,
- dispassion,
- downiness,
- dynamic symmetry,
- equability,
- equality,
- equanimity,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- finish,
- flatness,
- flushness,
- frictionlessness,
- gentleness,
- glabriety,
- glabrousness,
- glossiness,
- golden mean,
- greasiness,
- happy medium,
- harmony,
- homogeneity,
- horizontalism,
- horizontality,
- horizontalness,
- identity,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- justice,
- keeping,
- lenity,
- levelness,
- likeness,
- lubricity,
- meden agan,
- methodicalness,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- monolithism,
- multilateral symmetry,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- oiliness,
- pacifism,
- par,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- persistence,
- planeness,
- poise,
- polarity,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- prudence,
- punctuality,
- regularity,
- repetition,
- repose,
- restraint,
- satininess,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- shapeliness,
- silkiness,
- sleekness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- smoothness,
- sobriety,
- stability,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- suavity,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- systematicalness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- tranquillity,
- trilateral symmetry,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- uniformity,
- unity,
- unruffledness,
- velvetiness,
- via media
- regularity
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- the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits"
- a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles related words >
- arrangement,
- array,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- cadence,
- ceaselessness,
- chattering,
- clockwork regularity,
- concord,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- consistency,
- constancy,
- constant flow,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- correspondence,
- daily round,
- dependability,
- deployment,
- dingdong,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- downiness,
- drone,
- dynamic symmetry,
- equality,
- equilibrium,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- even pace,
- even tenor,
- evenness,
- finish,
- flatness,
- formation,
- frictionlessness,
- glabriety,
- glabrousness,
- glossiness,
- greasiness,
- harmoniousness,
- harmony,
- health,
- incessancy,
- invariability,
- keeping,
- layout,
- levelness,
- lineup,
- lubricity,
- marshaling,
- monologue,
- monotone,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- multilateral symmetry,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- naturism,
- noninterruption,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- oiliness,
- order,
- orderliness,
- organization,
- oscillation,
- pace,
- parallelism,
- peace,
- perpetuity,
- polarity,
- predictability,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- propriety,
- pulsation,
- quick fire,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- rapid fire,
- rapid recurrence,
- rapid succession,
- rapidity,
- realism,
- reliability,
- repetition,
- rhythm,
- routine,
- sameliness,
- sameness,
- satininess,
- setup,
- shapeliness,
- silkiness,
- singsong,
- sleekness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- smoothness,
- stability,
- staccato,
- steadiness,
- structure,
- stuttering,
- suavity,
- sustainment,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- system,
- tattoo,
- tranquillity,
- treadmill,
- trilateral symmetry,
- undeviation,
- undifferentiation,
- uniformity,
- unintermission,
- uninterruption,
- unvariation,
- velvetiness,
- vibration,
- wholesomeness
- artfulness
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- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- disingenuousness,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forswearing,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- know-how,
- low cunning,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- one-upmanship,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pawkiness,
- perjury,
- practical ability,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- purism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underhandedness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- rhetoric
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- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- fluency
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- the quality of being facile in speech and writing
- skillfulness in speaking or writing related words >
- Atticism,
- abundance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- amplitude,
- appropriateness,
- articulateness,
- big mouth,
- candor,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- chylifaction,
- chylification,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- cloud of words,
- comeliness,
- command,
- communicativeness,
- concourse,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- control,
- conversableness,
- copiousness,
- correctness,
- course,
- crosscurrent,
- current,
- defluxion,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ease,
- effortlessness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- eloquence,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- facility,
- fecundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fertility,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flow of words,
- flowing,
- flowing periods,
- flowing tongue,
- fluent tongue,
- fluidity,
- fluidness,
- flux,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- fluxility,
- fluxion,
- formlessness,
- frankness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- gushing,
- inflow,
- juiciness,
- lactation,
- lactescence,
- limpidity,
- liquefaction,
- liquidness,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- lucidity,
- macrology,
- milkiness,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- moisture,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- openness,
- outflow,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- pleonasm,
- poetry,
- polish,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- propriety,
- purity,
- race,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- refinement,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- restraint,
- rheuminess,
- run,
- rush,
- sappiness,
- seemliness,
- serosity,
- set,
- simplicity,
- slickness,
- slush,
- smoothness,
- sociability,
- spate,
- spate of words,
- straightforwardness,
- stream,
- succulence,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- suppuration,
- surge,
- talkativeness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- terseness,
- tide,
- tirade,
- trend,
- unaffectedness,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- verbosity,
- volubility,
- water flow,
- wateriness,
- windiness
- felicity
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- pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) related words >
- Atticism,
- Easy Street,
- admissibility,
- affluence,
- an ear for,
- an eye for,
- applicability,
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- articulateness,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- becomingness,
- bed of roses,
- bent,
- bewitchment,
- blessedness,
- blessing,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- capacity for,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- civility,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- cloud nine,
- clover,
- comeliness,
- comfort,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- correctness,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- delectation,
- delight,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- ecstasy,
- ecstatics,
- effective style,
- elation,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- eloquence,
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