slickness

Other forms of slickness

plural

slicknesses·

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 slickness

What does slickness mean?

slickness means "verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slickness?

slickness has 2 syllables: slick-ness. The stress falls on "slick".

What is another word for slickness?

Close synonyms include trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery. 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 slickness a common word?

slickness 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.