oiliness

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oily +‎ -ness

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oiliness (usually uncountable, plural oilinesses)

  1. The quality of being oily.
    • 1944 September and October, “The Late R. M. Deeley”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
      During his retirement, Deeley devised a method for testing the oiliness of lubricants, which he communicated to the Physical Society in 1919; [] .

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