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facileness

facileness noun: superficiality, glibness.

Noun

facileness (uncountable)

  1. superficiality, glibness
    • But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.2004 December 3, Ben Schwartz, “The Comedy Behind the Tragedy”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of facileness

* from facile + -ness

Questions about facileness

What does facileness mean?
Facileness means superficiality, glibness.
What part of speech is facileness?
Facileness is a noun.

Words near facileness in the dictionary

  1. facies
  2. facies Hippocratica
  3. facil
  4. facile
  5. facilely
  6. facileness
  7. faciliatory
  8. facilitate
  9. facilitated
  10. facilitated communication
  11. facilitates

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