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Smoothness

noun

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

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

... assure herself that this thinking would die out. Looking round the world, her small world, how many women there were who had not married the men they had loved first! How few, perhaps, had done so! Life was not good-natured enough for smoothness such as that. And yet did not they, as a rule, live well with their husbands? What right had she to expect anything better than their fate? Each poor insipid dame that she saw, toddling on with half-a-dozen children at her heels, might have had as good a John Gordon ...

— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope

... sea. Drifting with wind and wave is a simple thing for a big vessel. There is no struggle, no tearing asunder of resisting forces. Thus might a boat caught in the pitiless current of Niagara glide towards the brink of the cataract with cunning smoothness. ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... is so smooth, Margaret. I never felt anything like it; and the smoothness and coolness seem to go into my head, and stop the aching. Do you think this is being sick? If ...

— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards

... and setting them side by side like a long row of park palings between the same limits, their upper outline will be identical. Moreover, it will run smoothly and not in irregular steps. The theoretical interpretation of the smoothness of outline is that the individual differences in the objects are caused by different combinations of a large number of minute influences; and as the difference between any two adjacent objects in a long row ...

— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton

... draught of the wind has blown constantly down the strait. Such are my rough notes made during the day, as the "Pioneer" and "Intrepid" worked to the westward; but as evening drew on, the increasing smoothness of the water, and a hard icy blink to the west, prepared us for a report which came from the crow's nest about midnight, that there was very much ice to the ...

— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn

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