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slipperness

slipperness is the obsolete form of slipperiness.

Meaning of slipperiness

Noun

slipperiness (countable and uncountable, plural slipperinesses)

  1. (uncountable) The property of being slippery.
    • He struggled out of the water, by clawing into the slipperiness, and climbing, not knowing if he was crawling onto the body of a sea serpent.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 475
  2. (countable) The result or product of being slippery.

Origin of slipperness

From slipper + -ness.

Questions about slipperness

What is slipperness the obsolete form of?
Slipperness is the obsolete form of slipperiness.

Words near slipperness in the dictionary

  1. slipperinesses
  2. slippering
  3. slipperings
  4. slipperless
  5. slipperlike
  6. slipperness
  7. slippers
  8. slipperweed
  9. slipperwort
  10. slipperworts
  11. slippery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slipperness (page history and authors); slipperiness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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