slippinessn.
rare.
a. Slipperiness.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > slippery smoothness
slidderness971
slippernessa1000
slipperiness1562
glibness1611
slippiness1821
slideableness1886
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. v. 137 She leaned on him somewhat more than the slippiness of the way necessarily demanded.
b. Speed, promptitude, alacrity. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > promptness or alacrity
readinessa1382
alacritya1460
promptitudea1460
thro1488
promptness1506
officiousness1596
earliness1617
alacriousness1657
slippiness1974
1974 P. G. Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen xii. 98 I think I outlined the position..rather well, making it abundantly clear that..the cat..must be restored to its proprietor with all possible slippiness.
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