slipperiness

Variant of slippery

adjective slipperier, slipperiest

  1. causing or liable to cause sliding or slipping, as a wet, waxed, or greasy surface
  2. tending to slip away, as from a grasp
  3. not reliable or trustworthy; deceitful
  4. subject to change: a slippery situation
  5. Obsolete immoral

Origin: altered < ME sliper, slippery < OE slipor, akin to MHG slupferic: for IE base see slip

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