Definition of Glibness

1. Noun. A kind of fluent easy superficiality. "The glibness of a high-pressure salesman"

Exact synonyms: Slickness
Generic synonyms: Shallowness, Superficiality
Derivative terms: Glib, Glib, Glib, Slick, Slick

Definition of Glibness

1. n. The quality of being glib.

Definition of Glibness

1. Noun. The condition of being glib ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glibness

1. the quality of being glib [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glibness

glial fibrillary acidic protein
glial filament
glial limiting membrane
glialike
glias
glib
glib-tongued
glibbed
glibber
glibbery
glibbest
glibbing
glibenclamide
glibenclamides
glibly
glibness (current term)
glibnesses
glibs
glicentin
glicke
glickes
gliclazide
glid
glidant
glidden
glidder
gliddery
gliddest
glide
glide-bomb

Literary usage of Glibness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"-lim lip-glue, -lader glibness of tongue, volubility; have et godt — have the gift of the gab .... glibness ..."

2. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"The glibness with which it flowed, this explanation that had so much of defence in it, showed how the poor woman had gone over and over it all in her mind ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"Ask the novelist, ask the popular compiler of history, and he will answer with all the glibness that may be, " Oh, of course they were the Normans and the ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"133. glibness (glib'nes), it. [< glib1 + -ness.'] The state or quality of being glib; ... smoothness ; volubility : as, glibness of tongue or speech. ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"The glibness with which it flowed, this explanation that had so much of defence in it, showed how the poor woman had gone over and over it all in her mind ..."

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