Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being slippery, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being slippery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The property of being slippery.
  • noun countable The result or product of being slippery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a slippery smoothness
  • noun the quality of being a slippery rascal

Etymologies

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From slippery +‎ -ness

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