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olive oiliness

olive oiliness noun: the quality of being olive-oily.

Noun

olive oiliness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being olive-oily.
    • But at what price? What did “the melting pot” actually do for Spiro Anagnostopoulos? Jokes about being Greek, consciousness of the slickness of his hair and the olive oiliness of his skin, shame at his family name (how many hundred years had it endured without truncation?).1972, Michael Novak, “[Spiro T. Anagnostopoulos: Remembrance of Humiliations Past] “We, the Establishment””, in The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies, New York...
    • Although cyclosporine does have a distinctive smell, it doesn't really bother me too much. However, when I had to take it in its liquid form (from my heart transplant in 12/91 until about 6/93,) I disliked the olive-oiliness of it.1996 August 10, MS KAREN J TISHLER, “cyclosporine- liquid and smells”, in bit.listserv.transplant (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Nov 2023

Origin of olive oiliness

From olive oily + -ness.

Questions about olive oiliness

What does olive oiliness mean?
Olive oiliness means the quality of being olive-oily.
What part of speech is olive oiliness?
Olive oiliness is a noun.

Words near olive oiliness in the dictionary

  1. olive loaf
  2. olive loaves
  3. olive moth
  4. olive moths
  5. olive oil
  6. olive oiliness
  7. olive oils
  8. olive oily
  9. olive ore
  10. olive plum
  11. olive plums

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