sliminess
- noun
- /ˈslaɪmɪnəs/
:
limosidad
- Leon quickly finds that he has romanticized this setting and begins to feel that all of nature, in its wetness and sliminess, is conspiring against him.
Examples
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He turned into it, holding it partly by its sliminess under his feet, partly by the feel of the bushes whipping his face on either side, and not at all by sight.
Academic text (1995) -
The sliminess of the mud made it difficult to walk without slipping.
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She is actively choosing to ignore a track record of sliminess from her new husband, a guy who exhibits a pattern of behavior that is very much unlikely to change.
Blog text (7) -
It was ovoid, dull red, strangely plastic, with a faint sheen that gave no impression of sliminess.
Fiction book (1995) -
I feel nauseated at first, but once I actually pick them up and feel their sliminess in my hand, it transports me back to being eight years old, cutting them into dozens of pieces in our garden and watching them slither around like maggots just prior to putting them down the wee girl next door's dress.
Fiction book (2002) -
He couldn't stand the sliminess of the seaweed on his feet while swimming.
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After handling the frog, she noticed a sliminess on her fingers that felt unpleasant.
Synonyms
85
1.8
A thick slippery substance that feels wet and sticky
59
3.0
A thick sticky substance that is soft and wet
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
15
4.6
Thick sticky stuff that is dirty or unpleasant
10
7.5
A thick sticky substance that is often messy
2
3.9
How much a liquid or soft substance stays on other surfaces after you touch them
1
3.6
A surface covered with oil or fat that feels sticky
1
3.9
A greasy shine or feeling caused by oil on skin and food
A wet, slippery material that feels thick and makes things slide
A slight stickiness when you touch something
The quality of being sticky so it stays on surfaces
A damp, sticky feeling on the skin that is unpleasant
Antonyms
How Slimy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sliminess comes from the simple word slime, which means 'sticky, wet stuff', plus the ending -ness that turns it into a quality. So sliminess describes a sticky or slippery feel and, by extension, a person's unpleasant, 'not to be trusted' behaviour.