sleekness

1. 1.

   the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored

   “the sleekness of his appearance reminded me of his financial successes”

   Broaderappearance
2. 2.

   the smooth feel of silk fabric

   Synonymssilkiness

   Broadersmoothness

Other forms of sleekness

plural

sleeknesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sleekness

What does sleekness mean?

sleekness means "the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sleekness?

sleekness has 2 syllables: sleek-ness. The stress falls on "sleek".

What is another word for sleekness?

Close synonyms include silkiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sleekness a common word?

sleekness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.