slickness

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/ˈslɪknɪs/

noun

The property of being slick.

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Meanings

nounslickness (plural slicknesses)

plural slicknesses

  1. The property of being slick.

    The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.

    1959 June 28, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408

Synonyms & antonyms

nounverbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

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trickeryhocus-pocushanky pankyjiggery-pokeryskulduggeryskullduggery
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misrepresentationdeceitdeception

nouna kind of fluent easy superficiality

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glibness
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superficialityshallowness

nouna slippery smoothness

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smoothness
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glibnesshocus-pocusjiggery-pokerylubricityskulduggeryslickslipslipperinesstrickery

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From slick + -ness.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with slickness

sickness
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Cite this entry
APA

slickness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slickness

MLA

“slickness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slickness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slickness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slickness.

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