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Definition: Sliminess |
SliminessNoun1. A property resembling or being covered with slime. 2. The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sliminess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: SliminessSynonyms: loathsomeness (n), repulsiveness (n), vileness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sliminess |
| English words defined with "sliminess": Mucousness. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The moisture of the stones and the sliminess of the floor made them bad points of support, whether for the hand or the foot. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "sliminess"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schleimigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλοιώδεσ (clamminess, viscidity, viscidness, viscosity, viscousness), αηδία (abhorrence, disgust, distaste, eyesore, insipidity, insipidness, mawkishness, nausea, nauseousness, shucks, vapid, vapidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyálkásság (glutinosity), iszaposság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | viscidit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sleetchys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iminessslay слизистость. (various references) zalamería (blandishment, flattery, oiliness, smoothness, suavity, unction), viscosidad (adhesiveness, clamminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscosity), lo rastrero, lo limoso. (various references) sümüksülük, sümüklülük, yapışkanlık (gumminess, hard pass, stickiness, tenacity, viscidity), yaltaklanma (adulation, blarney, flattery, flummery), kayganlık (greasiness, lubricity, slipperiness, smoothness). (various references) sự nhớ bẩn sự lu"n cúi, sự nịnh nọt (adulation), sự bùn lầy nhầy nhụa sự nhớt nhát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sliminess": sliminesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sliminess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lininess, Slimane, slimings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sliminess" (pronounced 'Slim"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-m-n-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: liminess, missiles, slimness. | |
-2 letters: mislies, missels, missies, missile, seisins, similes, simlins, simnels, sinless. | |
-3 letters: imines, isseis, limens, mislie, missel, misses, missis, niseis, seisin, seisms, sileni, simile, simlin, simnel, slimes, smiles. | |
-4 letters: imine, isles, issei, lenis, liens, limen, limes, limns, lines, miens, miles, mines, minis, mises, nisei, seism, semis, sines, sises, slime, slims, smile. | |
-5 letters: elms. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-m-n-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: flimsiness, liminesses. | |
+2 letters: filminesses, lesbianisms, milkinesses, miserliness, sinsemillas, sliminesses. | |
+3 letters: antimissiles, blimpishness, disseminules, essentialism, flimsinesses, limpidnesses, masculinises, minstrelsies, misspellings, timelinesses. | |
+4 letters: dimensionless, disassembling, essentialisms, impulsiveness, leishmaniases, leishmaniasis, limitednesses, limitlessness, maliciousness, misassembling, miscellanists, miserlinesses, neoclassicism, sectionalisms, semifinalists, transmissible, universalisms, whimsicalness. | |
+5 letters: almightinesses, blimpishnesses, familiarnesses, generalissimos, implicitnesses, impolitenesses, impossibleness, maidenlinesses, militantnesses, neoclassicisms, neoplasticisms, sensationalism, untimelinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 6D 69 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. -- .. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i m i n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 006D 0069 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537875797580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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