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SLIMINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sliminess mean?
• SLIMINESS (noun)
The noun SLIMINESS has 2 senses:
1. a property resembling or being covered with slime
2. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Familiarity information: SLIMINESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A property resembling or being covered with slime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sliminess" is a kind of...):
viscosity; viscousness (resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow))
Derivation:
slimy (covered with or resembling slime)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
loathsomeness; lousiness; repulsiveness; sliminess; vileness; wickedness
Context example:
the vileness of his language surprised us
Hypernyms ("sliminess" is a kind of...):
distastefulness; odiousness; offensiveness (the quality of being offensive)
Derivation:
slimy (morally reprehensible)
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