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GLIBNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of fluent easy superficiality
Example:
the glibness of a high-pressure salesman
Synonyms:
glibness; slickness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("glibness" is a kind of...):
shallowness; superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
Derivation:
glib (artfully persuasive in speech)
glib (having only superficial plausibility)
glib (marked by lack of intellectual depth)
