sliminessn.
/ˈslʌɪmɪnɪs/ The state or quality of being slimy; slimy character or consistency.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > sliminess
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1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O j b Greatte estates haue them [carps] sodde in wyne, and so the slymynes is done away.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. x. f. 147 The slymines of the earth and water.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 51 This is prooued by..the lentor or sliminesse of their substance.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §9. 5 We find it so potent in cleansing all Windiness, Sliminess, Stone or Gravel.
1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. x. 122 The Sliminess of the Eel will immediately foul the Glass.
1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 33 253 The sliminess [of the snail] is considered as the greatest delicacy.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. vii. 139 It impressed the beholder with an association of sliminess.
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