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From French lubricité or its source, Latin lūbricitās.

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lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)

  1. Slipperiness, oiliness.
    • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 42:
      Though her lubricity made it redundant, Anthea passed him the oil to caress her thighs.
  2. Evasiveness, shiftiness.
  3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness
    Synonyms: lechery, wantonness
    • 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude
      In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.

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