unctuousness

noun

1
as in smoothness

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2
as in suaveness

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Recent Examples of unctuousness The fruit’s juicy core tangoes with the olive oil’s grassy unctuousness. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 9 Sep. 2026 Bad mini cones are made with soggy cones and sweet, fluffy filling that has none of the unctuousness of real ice cream. — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unctuousness
  1. smoothness
  2. urbanity
  3. oiliness
  4. elegance
  5. glibness
  6. manners
  7. artificiality
  8. gentlemanliness
Noun
  • Check out what all the hype’s about while saving 30 percent on this shampoo and conditioner duo that promises up to 72 hours of moisture and silk-like smoothness.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Grabbing a spacious 34-inch ultrawide display loaded with 1440p vertical clarity, split-screen multitasking tools, and 100Hz motion smoothness for nearly $200 is an extraordinary bargain.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of smoothness
Noun
  • The magazine’s urbanity lay in the anti-urbanism of its singular voices.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of urbanity
Noun
  • Common concerns tend to be acne, post-acne marks, oiliness and keeping hair and nails healthy.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Common concerns in this decade tend to include acne, post-acne marks, oiliness and keeping hair and nails healthy.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of oiliness
Noun
  • Capturing the whole of the set-up, a Mediterranean pile on the north-west coast of Cyprus, framing its splendid size, its weighty elegance, its thrilling solidity, is challenging.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Mosaku’s dress was formfitting and merged timeless elegance with a scintillating, sensual appeal by contemporary standards.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of elegance
Noun
  • Advertisement Still, Trump’s apparent glibness comes as the Republican Party faces what could be challenging midterm elections, as the economy and affordability remain top concerns for voters.
    — Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 June 2026
Definition of glibness
Noun
  • Swift drops clues in all manners and the Swifties almost always unearth the meaning behind them.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026
  • On the one hand, Julian Fellowes’ juicy melodrama enlists one of the finest ensembles imaginable to bring outsized intensity to a drama of manners.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of manners
Noun
  • Still, an air of artificiality and sometimes theatricality does pervade his talky, often didactic scenes, which actually plays to the benefit of the performances — especially from Huston.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And anyone who has read even a little of Cusk’s previous work will recognize that these concerns map suspiciously closely to Cusk’s own preoccupations with artificiality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of artificiality
Noun
  • Their answer came in the form of Colby Donaldson, the Texan mama’s boy who performed rugged gentlemanliness.
    — Shaan Merchant, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2026
Definition of gentlemanliness

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“Unctuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unctuousness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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