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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

... cars nothing but their watches told them of the rate of speed. Of the party on board every man was familiar with railway affairs; but there was not one who was not surprised at the smoothness of the track and the complete absence of uncomfortable motion. Only by lifting a window shade and straining the eyes into the blackness of the night, to see the red sparks streaming by or the dim outlines of house and tree loom up and disappear, was it possible to appreciate ...

— McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896 • Various

... of being Sophia's mother for nearly sixteen years had not been lost on Mrs. Baines, and though she was now discovering undreamt-of dangers in Sophia's erratic temperament, she kept her presence of mind sufficiently well to behave with diplomatic smoothness. It was undoubtedly humiliating to a mother to be forced to use diplomacy in dealing with a girl in short sleeves. In HER day mothers had been ...

— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... very numerous, and gave a smoothness to the transactions of the day, which had a visible effect on business. Every species of fats were in high demand, but the glut of mutton gave a temporary check to the general facility ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 16, 1841 • Various

... sojourn slipped by with exceeding smoothness. They did a little fishing and a good deal of quiet lazing, a little exploring, and even one ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... introducing our style of gardening into Germany, chiefly on account of its inferior turf for lawns. "Lawns and gravel walks," says a writer in the Quarterly Review, "are the pride of English Gardens," "The smoothness and verdure of our lawns," continues the same writer, "is the first thing in our gardens that catches the eye of a foreigner; the next is the fineness and firmness of our gravel walks." Mr. Charles Mackintosh makes the same observation. "In no other country in the world," he says, "do ...

— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson

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