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GLIBNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glibness mean?
• GLIBNESS (noun)
The noun GLIBNESS has 1 sense:
1. a kind of fluent easy superficiality
Familiarity information: GLIBNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of fluent easy superficiality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
glibness; slickness
Context example:
the glibness of a high-pressure salesman
Hypernyms ("glibness" is a kind of...):
shallowness; superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
Derivation:
glib (artfully persuasive in speech)
glib (having only superficial plausibility)
glib (marked by lack of intellectual depth)
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