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Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.

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  1. n. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.
  2. n. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.
  3. n. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
  4. n. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
  5. 1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray. 2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange. 3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.
  6. n feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness