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Definition: Glibness |
GlibnessNoun1. A kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glibness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
Synonym: GlibnessSynonym: slickness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glibness |
| English words defined with "glibness": slickness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glibness": Dumb. (references) |
| "Glibness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glibness" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "glibness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سلاسة (fluency, smoothness), زلاقة لسان, طلاقة (eloquence, fluency, freedom, volubility). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свобода (ease, freedom, independence, liberty, loose, margin, play, unconstraint), чене, многоречивост. (various references) | |
Czech | plynnost. (various references) | |
Finnish | kielevyys (garrulity). (various references) | |
French | facilité de parole, désinvolture, bagou. (various references) | |
German | zungenfertigkeit (eloquence, fluency), gewandtheit (savoir faire, adroitness, agility, dexterity, dexterousness, handiness, nimbleness). (various references) | |
Greek | πολυλογία χωρίσ ειλικρίνεια, ανειλικρινήσ πολυλογία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חלקות לשון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | simaság (evenness, finish). (various references) | |
Italian | loquacità (garrulity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 口達者 (eloquence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちだっしゃ (eloquence). (various references) | |
Manx | glibeeys (pertness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ibnessglay.(various references) | |
Romanian | volubilitate (loquacity, volubility), uşurinţã (carelessness, ease, easiness, facility, flimsiness, frivolity, levity, light-mindedness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, wantonness). (various references) | |
Russian | бойкость (perkiness, pertness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glatkost (evenness, smoothness), blagoglagoljivost. (various references) | |
Spanish | labia (blarney, gift of the gab, labia), insinceridad (insincerity). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzeysellik (shallowness, superficiality), netlik (clearness, sharpness), akıcılık (continuity, flow, fluency, fluidity, liquidity, smoothness, volubility), üstün körü olma. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lém lỉnh, sự ăn nói liến thoắng. (various references) | |
Welsh | llithrigrwydd (slipperiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glibness": glibnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Glibness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gilbanks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "glibness" (pronounced 'Glib"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blessing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-l-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: bigness, singles. | |
-2 letters: begins, beings, bilges, binges, gneiss, ingles, singes, single, slings. | |
-3 letters: begin, being, biles, bilge, bines, binge, bises, bless, bliss, gibes, glens, ingle, isles, lenis, liens, lines, lings, segni, sengi, signs, sines, singe, sings, sling, snibs. | |
-4 letters: begs, bels, bens, bigs, bile, bine, bins, bise, blin, egis, engs, gels, gens, gibe, gibs. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-l-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: blessings. | |
+2 letters: assembling, assignable, glibnesses, inselbergs, subleasing. | |
+3 letters: dissembling, ignobleness, lobsterings, obsolescing, outblessing, preblessing, subceilings. | |
+4 letters: beggarliness, bobsleddings, booksellings, establishing, obligingness, reassembling, sublicensing, tangibleness. | |
+5 letters: belongingness, billingsgates, bluestockings, disassembling, fiberglassing, ignoblenesses, indigestibles, misassembling. | |
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