oilinessn.
/ˈɔɪlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɔɪlinᵻs/ 1.
a. The appearance, texture, consistency, or flavour of oil; oily quality; the condition of being full of or covered with oil.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > oiliness
oleaginity?a1425
oiliness1551
oleosity1612
oleity1656
oleaginy1678
oleaginousness1680
oleaginosity1694
1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial sig. Eii The deades..of oile Imperial be infiniteli more constant..bi reason of his oiliness.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Oylienes, fatnes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oleaginité, oylinesse, or an oylie substance.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 334 Unctuous bodies, and such whose oylinesse is evident. View more context for this quotation
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 289 Water-Fowl..are offensive to the Stomach sometimes, by reason of their Oiliness.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 199 The oiliness and richness of the ground.
1822 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 259 The first unusual sensation that I perceived, was a peculiar feeling, or taste of oiliness in the mouth, a little after twelve o'clock.
1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 302/1 The flax..wants that elasticity, pliancy, and oiliness, found in the produce of more temperate countries.
1937 Life 12 Apr. 15/3 (advt.) Fougere Royale Hair Lotion..adds lustre without oiliness.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 28 Mar. 690/1 Various changes in the skin, including acne, oiliness..and coarseness of texture, were mentioned by 16 persons.
1991 M. Amis Time's Arrow iv. 110 Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water.
b. Engineering. The relative lubricating property of a fluid.
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1900 L. Archbutt & R. M. Deeley Lubrication & Lubricants xi. 397 The corresponding property in the case of liquids, which prevents the lubricant from being easily pressed out, is called oiliness.
1922 Jrnl. Soc. Automotive Engineers 11 143/2 For the purposes under discussion, the ‘oiliness’ of a lubricant will be defined as the property by virtue of which one fluid gives lower coefficients of friction (generally at slow speeds or high loads) than another fluid of the same viscosity.
1966 M. D. Hersey Theory & Res. Lubrication xiii. 443 When two oils of equal viscosity..are found to give different friction, the oil giving the lower friction will be considered to have the greater oiliness.
1994 J. A. Williams Engin. Tribol. ix. 350 The term oiliness is difficult to define with any precision.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > oiliness > oil > the oily matter of anything
oiliness1559
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 2 Last of all an oylines: whiche also euen oute of the very bones may be gotte, and not only out of massy partes.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §521 Fat and succulent leaves, which oylinesse if it be drawn forth by the sunne..will make a very great change.
1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 81 The oilinesse will separate from its body.
1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2018 Where he takes notice, that Hippocrates holds the Brain to have little of Oylines in it, because it will not flame.
1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. ii. 33 Get some bran, and with it rub off all the oiliness.
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 452 Those employed in the herring fishery, could at a distance see where the shoals of herrings were, by the smoothness of the water over them, which might possibly be occasioned..by some oiliness proceeding from their bodies.
3. figurative. Smoothness of behaviour or speech; flattering or insinuating manner; obsequiousness, unctuousness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] > quality of being flattering
smoothnessa1616
blanditude1689
smooth-tonguedness1737
silkiness1832
oiliness1833
flatteringness1894
oleosity?1920
smarminess1934
1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 144/1 That same blubbery oiliness..the very gift of a fluent public speaker—to Dupeables.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude ii. 18 The hardness, oiliness, and imperturbability of the world.
1900 ‘A. Hope’ Quisanté iii. 32 In attempting smoothness, he fell into oiliness.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf ii. 14 This oiliness, or greasiness, as I was later to learn, was probably the most salient expression of his personality.
a1978 M. Bell Compl. Poems (1988) 228 Now he sang a sentimental song with all the oiliness of Burton doing his Dylan Thomas bit.
2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 July (Green guide) 25 He's played with just the right blend of oiliness and pomposity by Jeff Goldblum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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