greasiness
(ˈgriːzɪ-, ˈgriːsɪnɪs)
[f. greasy + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being greasy; fattiness; oiliness; unctuousness. With pl. A greasy or fatty article.
| 1552 Huloet, Greasines, or spottes of grease, or filthynes, squallor. 1658 A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. xx. 131 These [knees] ought not at all to be annointed, much less must any greasiness or moisture come to it. 1669 Boyle Absol. Rest in Bodies 20 Upon the most of these stones after they are cut, there appears always as it were a kind of greasiness or unctuosity. 1801 A. Seward Lett. lxxiii. (1811) V. 408 The slippery greasiness of a damp day keeps me within doors. 1832 G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 297 This substance..will, through its greasiness, indispose the glass from taking the colour properly. 1845 Budd Dis. Liver 230 Greasiness of the skin. 1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure 184 Split fish and unimaginable greasinesses to eat. |