Usually means: Excessive, oily smoothness or flattery.
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  1. unctuousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. unctuousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unctuousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unctuousness: Vocabulary.com
  5. unctuousness: Wordnik
  6. unctuousness: Wiktionary
  7. unctuousness: Dictionary.com
  8. unctuousness: Rhymezone
  9. unctuousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. unctuousness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. unctuousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. unctuousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unctuousness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unctuousness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. unctuousness: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unctuousness)

▸ noun:  The state or characteristic of being unctuous.

Similar:
fulsomeness, oleaginousness, smarminess, oiliness, unction, unctuosity, unctiousness, obsequity, cloyingness, unduteousness, more...

Opposite:
austere, plain, simple, straightforward, direct

Adjectives:
certain, great, hypocritical, usual, same, such, inimitable, ethiopian, extreme, pious, old

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Similar:
fulsomeness, oleaginousness, smarminess, oiliness, unction, unctuosity, unctiousness, obsequity, cloyingness, unduteousness, more...

Opposite:
austere, plain, simple, straightforward, direct

Adjectives:
certain, great, hypocritical, usual, same, such, inimitable, ethiopian, extreme, pious, old



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