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Definition of Smoothness

1. Noun. A texture without roughness; smooth to the touch. "Some artists prefer the smoothness of a board"

2. Noun. Powerful and effective language. "His oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"

3. Noun. The quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner.

4. Noun. The quality of having a level and even surface. "The weather system of the Pacific is determined by the uninterrupted smoothness of the ocean"

5. Noun. The quality of being free from errors or interruptions. "The five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified"

Definition of Smoothness

1. n. Quality or state of being smooth.

Definition of Smoothness

1. Noun. The condition of being smooth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smoothness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoothness

smoothes smoothest smootheth smoothhound smoothhound shark smoothie smoothies smoothing smoothing iron smoothing irons

smoothing plane smoothingly smoothings smoothish smoothly smoothness (current term) smoothnesses smooths smoothsort smoothy

smooting smoots smorat smorbrod smorbrods smore smored smores smorgasbord smorgasbords

Literary usage of Smoothness

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

1. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"His theory leads him to put an especial stress on the beauty of smoothness, a quality so essential to beauty, he says, that he cannot recollect anything ..."

2. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"smoothness. THE next property constantly observable in such objects is smoothness :* a quality so essential to beauty, that I do not now recollect any thing ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"smoothness THE next property constantly observable in such objects is smoothness:1 a quality so essential to beauty, that I do not now recollect anything ..."

4. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1872)
"smoothness is not only essential to comfort, but even more so to economy of ... It is essential to the preservation of smoothness, except in the case of ..."

5. An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste by Richard Payne Knight (1806)
"smoothness being properly a quality perceivable only by the touch, and applied metaphorically to the objects of the other senses, we often apply it very ..."

6. A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on by John Claudius Loudon (1806)
"The eye acquires a knowledge of some of these qualities by experience; thus roughness is discerned by the abrupt union of light and shade; smoothness by ..."

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