glibnessn.
/ˈɡlɪbnɪs/ The quality of being glib.
1. Smoothness; slipperiness.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > slippery smoothness
slidderness971
slippernessa1000
slipperiness1562
glibness1611
slippiness1821
slideableness1886
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Glissade, a slip, or slipping..; also, glibnesse.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 130 A polisht ice-like glibnesse doth enfold The rocke so round.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xiv. 125 The glibbenesse of Mercury, and of melted mettalls.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 9 A kinde of gentle softness, and smoothness, and supple glibbiness: wherewith the touch is much delighted.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. 98 The Fluids [are]..only intended to preserve them [solids] in due Plight, Glibness [etc.].
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 249 Our organs..continue the motions we put them into after they have gone out of our sight, thereby working themselves to a glibness and smoothness.
2. Facility, readiness.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun]
lightnessa1382
easiness1398
lightsomeness?a1425
facility1531
readiness1579
easea1616
glibnessa1640
smoothness1893
a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iii. iii. 56 With what glibnesse my flatteries oyld with hopes of future greatenesse are swallow'd by this dull pate.
3. Fluency, volubility.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]
overspeecheOE
tongue-itch1540
multiloquy1542
long tongue1557
garrulity1581
slipperiness1589
polylogy1602
volubility1602
loquacity1603
lubricity1603
tonguiness1607
overspeakinga1610
talkativeness1609
philology1623
tongue-vice1628
glibness1633
futility1640
linguacity1656
garrulousness1727
linguosity1727
loquaciousness1727
multiloquiousness1727
jaw1748
multiloquence1760
flippancy1789
verbal diarrhoea1808
magpiety1832
big mouth1834
pleniloquence1838
chattiness1876
open-mouthedness1883
gabbiness1887
garrulance1890
irreticence1919
talkiness1934
ear-bashing1945
mee-mawing1974
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 10) 222 Physitians judge of the bodies health, not..by the glibnesse of the tongue;..but by the pulse of the arme.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 232 A current glibness in the utterance of any language.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xviii. 66 The..word slips out of their lips with..glibness.
1865 Sat. Rev. 11 Mar. 284 He..said what he had to say with the usual glibness.
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