SLICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slickness mean? 

• SLICKNESS (noun)
  The noun SLICKNESS has 3 senses:

1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

2. a kind of fluent easy superficiality

3. a slippery smoothness

  Familiarity information: SLICKNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hanky panky; hocus-pocus; jiggery-pokery; skulduggery; skullduggery; slickness; trickery

Hypernyms ("slickness" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

Derivation:

slick (marked by skill in deception)

Sense 2

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 ("slickness" is a kind of...):

shallowness; superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)

Derivation:

slick (marked by skill in deception)

slick (having only superficial plausibility)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A slippery smoothness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

slick; slickness; slip; slipperiness

Context example:

he could feel the slickness of the tiller

Hypernyms ("slickness" is a kind of...):

smoothness (a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch)

Derivation:

slick (having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light)

slick (made slick by e.g. ice or grease)