Meaning & use
Lubricity
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The quality of being slippery or smooth, reducing friction between surfaces.
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Engineers tested the lubricity of the new coating to reduce friction between moving parts.
The oil's high lubricity kept the engine running smoothly under heavy load.
A note on using this word
Lubricity has an older, moral sense too, meaning lewdness or lasciviousness, quite apart from its modern technical use in engineering.
Words with a similar meaning
slipperiness
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Words with an opposite meaning
roughness
Another way to use it
2. noun
Lewdness or lasciviousness.
The critic condemned the play's lubricity as gratuitous rather than meaningful.
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