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Smoothness

noun

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

Powerful and effective language. Synonyms: eloquence, fluency. "Fluency in spoken and written English is essential" , "His oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"

The quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner. Synonyms: blandness, suaveness, suavity.

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

The quality of being free from errors or interruptions.

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"Smoothness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thomas Little was the name under which Moore's early poems were published, 'The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, Esq.' (1801). "Twelves" refers to the "duodecimo." Sheets, after printing, are pressed between cold or hot rollers, to impart smoothness of "surface." Hot rolling is ...

— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron

... upon a lens of surprising magnitude, polished to such a smoothness that the eye could scarcely meet its reflections. Here was a crystal in whose depths were to be seen more wonders than had been revealed by the ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... an opposite name. Such are the causes which we assign to these phenomena. As to the smooth and the rough, any one who sees them can explain the reason of them to another. For roughness is hardness mingled with irregularity, and smoothness is produced by the joint effect of ...

— Timaeus • Plato

... to Saxon with a chill pang that she was surely older than Billy. She stole glances at the smoothness of his face, and the essential boyishness of him, so much desired, shocked her. Of course he would marry some girl years younger than himself, than herself. How old was he? Could it be that he was too young for her? ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... evincing on every topic the fruits of extensive reading and reflection. He was readily moved by the pathetic; at the most joyous hour, a melancholy incident would move him into tears. The tenderness of his heart was frequently imparted to his verses, which are uniformly distinguished for smoothness ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

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