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unctuosity

noun as in grease

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noun as in suavity

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Example Sentences

Although soft to the touch, the common clay wants unctuosity, properly so called.

What he has missed is dignity: his pitfalls have been unctuosity, on the one side, bravado on the other.

It has in part the unctuosity of bees' wax, and somewhat of the brittleness of resin.

If they be but heated so as to boil, they become acrid, lose much of their unctuosity, and acquire a very pungent odour.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unctuosity, such as: lard, lubricant, oil, vegetable oil, drippings, and tallow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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