slimeyness

English

Etymology

From slimey +‎ -ness.

Noun

slimeyness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of sliminess.
    • [1701?], [Thomas Tryon], The Way to Get Wealth: or, A New and Easie Way to Make Twenty Three Sorts of Wine, Equal to That of France; with Their Vertues. […], London: […] G[eorge] Conyers, […], →OCLC, page 23:
      It helps Digeſtion, warms cold Sromachs, carries off Flegm, purifies the Blood, purges out ſalt watery Humours, cleanſes the Bowels from cold ſlimeyneſs, eaſes pains in the Limbs, Head, Heart, and Stomach; […]
    • 1993, Lucy Robertson, chapter 12, in Suffer the Little Children, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 147:
      When it retreated, sinking sullenly back on itself as though exhausted by its effort, it left a layer of green-grey slimeyness on the cobblestones and glinting puddles in all the hollows.
    • 2008, Carole Seymour-Jones, “The Trio”, in A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, London: Century, →ISBN, page 164:
      Swaying with nausea, his head spinning, ready to vomit at la viscosité, the slimeyness and stickiness of existence which sucks you in and traps you in holes, in voids, in quicksands, Roquentin is paralysed with terror.
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