emollience
English edit
Noun edit
emollience (usually uncountable, plural emolliences)
- The state or quality of being emollient; soothingness; softness.
- 2010, Stephanie Rose Bird, The Big Book of Soul: The Ultimate Guide to the African American Spirit[1], Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN:
- The emollience of peach flesh, peach kernel oil, and creamy coconut milk, balanced with soothing chamomile and oat straw, makes this the perfect skin concoction.
- 2011, Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- His behavior was not implausibly assumed to reflect, albeit indirectly, larger elements at work, even if mitigated by the cosmopolitan, patrician emollience of his character, as against the awkward, provincial angularity of his untried successor, then Vice President, Harry Truman.
- The act of soothing or appeasing; mollification.
- 2009, Justin Cartwright, To Heaven by Water, Bloomsbury, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 127–128:
- When it became clear to Josh that she thought he was a 'dipstick', she tried emollience: 'No, not at all. I just thought maybe you were going on too long. They were all too drunk or stupid to keep up.'