Meaning & use
Emollience
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The quality of being soothing, softening, or gently calming, especially to the skin.
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The lotion's emollience left her hands feeling soft after just one use.
Reviewers praised the cream's emollience without any greasy residue.
A note on using this word
Emollience is the noun form of 'emollient,' from Latin emollire, 'to soften,' a term familiar from skincare product labels.
Words with a similar meaning
softnesssmoothness
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Words with an opposite meaning
roughnessharshness
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