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Meaning of "silkiness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SILKINESS

silkiness  [ˈsɪlkɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SILKINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Silkiness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SILKINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of silkiness in the English dictionary

The first definition of silkiness in the dictionary is the smooth and glossy texture of something. Other definition of silkiness is the condition of having the smooth, glossy light-reflecting quality of silk. Silkiness is also the condition of being smooth and gentle.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SILKINESS


bulkiness
ˈbʌlkɪnɪs
cheekiness
ˈtʃiːkɪnɪs
cockiness
ˈkɒkɪnɪs
huskiness
ˈhʌskɪnɪs
jerkiness
ˈdʒɜːkɪnɪs
kinkiness
ˈkɪŋkɪnɪs
muckiness
ˈmʌkɪnɪs
murkiness
ˈmɜːkɪnɪs
muskiness
ˈmʌskɪnɪs
perkiness
ˈpɜːkɪnɪs
quirkiness
ˈkwɜːkɪnɪs
riskiness
ˈrɪskɪnɪs
shakiness
ˈʃeɪkɪnɪs
smokiness
ˈsməʊkɪnɪs
sneakiness
ˈsniːkɪnɪs
spookiness
ˈspuːkɪnɪs
stickiness
ˈstɪkɪnɪs
sulkiness
ˈsʌlkɪnɪs
tackiness
ˈtækɪnɪs
wackiness
ˈwækɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SILKINESS

silk-screen printing
silkalene
silkaline
silken
Silken Ladder
silkgrower
silkie
silkier
silkiest
silkily
silklike
silkoline
silkscreen
silktail
silkweed
silkworm
silkworm moth
silky
silky oak
silky terrier

WORDS THAT END LIKE SILKINESS

agribusiness
big business
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
show business
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of silkiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «silkiness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SILKINESS

Find out the translation of silkiness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of silkiness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «silkiness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

丝滑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sedosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

silkiness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

silkiness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النعومة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шелковистость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

silkiness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

silkiness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

soyeux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Silkiness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Glätte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

さらさら感
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

silkiness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Silkiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mượt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

silkiness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रेशीमपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

silkiness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

setosità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jedwabistość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шовковистість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

silkiness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απαλότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

silkiness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

silkiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

silkiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of silkiness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SILKINESS»

The term «silkiness» is regularly used and occupies the 95.424 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SILKINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «silkiness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «silkiness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about silkiness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SILKINESS»

Discover the use of silkiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to silkiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Critical Reading and Writing: An Introductory Coursebook
(4) shines (with a soft natural silkiness) AFFECTED AFFECTED every single hair (5) receives a thorough beauty treatment ACTOR AFFECTED only he (6) can add that finishing touch of brilliance (to ... Dulcia \fitality) The Material processes ...
Peter Andrew Goatly, Preet Hiradhar, 2013
2
Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, ...
With great balance and a huge amount of OS (obnoxious silkiness), this wine shows what properly made Pinot can achieve. It also has the interesting nose that Pinot is renowned for. There is a clever creaminess here, like cottage cheese ...
Gary Vaynerchuk, 2008
3
A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the ...
The anxiety that surfaced about silkiness would come to mark the masculine market in socks knit with local cotton, as the broader effort to create a united national cloth community struggled with the submerged tendency of silkiness to create ...
Nancy Reynolds, 2012
4
Doklady: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, ...
TABLE 1. Expected and Observed Silkiness of the Diploid and Triploid Hybrids with Different Combination of Genomes Controlling Low (L) and High (H) Silkiness of Silkworm Cocoons Line, breed, and their hybrids Ploidy level, n Combination ...
‎1986
5
Forbidden Game BIND-UP: The Hunter; The Chase; The Kill
They'd been fighting ever since. “Just try not to kill each other during the party,” Jenny said. Deliberately she pulled her hair back—the way Tom liked it—and. anchored. its. silkiness. with. an. elastic. band. Then she smiled at Audrey and said, ...
L.J. Smith, 2011
6
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
2446), but the flowers are much smaller and paler than in speciosa; the leaves too are not nearly so large, and are ovate, very little, or not at all сотые, the silkiness underneath more silvery, and not tomentose ; the pedunclel are shorter, and ...
‎1826
7
Principles of Horticulture
What is generally known as loam moulds readily into a cohesive ball and it has no dominant feel of grittiness, silkiness or stickiness. It is: sandy loam if grittiness is detected and the ball is readily deformed silty loam if it is readily deformed but  ...
C R Adams, 2012
8
Poetaster
Johnson does not contain the word ; Worcester, Webster, and the Standard define it 'silkiness.' Under silkness, the Century has: 'Silkiness: used humorously, simulating such titles as "your highness," to imply luxuriousness, etc.' The word is  ...
Ben Jonson, Herbert Samuel Mallory, 1616
9
Communications to the Board of agriculture, on subjects ...
To the same cause we may attribute its greater softness, smoothness, and silkiness to the touch, both before and after manufacture : for these qualities are nothing more than the ready yielding of the body and all the projecting points of the ...
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, 1806
10
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In ...
... so that it is probably the largest tree of the order that has yet been discovered, surpassing both the Knightia of New Zealand, and the Orites excelsa, Br. of Port Macquarrie. From its deeply dissected foliage, and the silkiness of the under-side , ...
John Sims, 1832

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SILKINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term silkiness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine?
... to sum up the taste: “Big and meaty, with lots of fruit and full tannins, but featuring a sweetness and silkiness on the finish.” At the time, the field of wine criticism ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
2
Tried and tested
I'm left feeling silky smooth and awakened. ... With a lovely silkiness and a soft, beaded texture, this scrub is fine enough to use even on the decollete and throat, ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
3
Bill Zacharkiw: Tasting the southern Rhône
Basic southern Rhône wine with a wonderful silkiness in the mid palate. Full-on boozy cherry and ripe, easy going tannins. Hard not to love this. Not the most ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
4
Community Art Exhibition at Lancaster Museum of Art
Rasmussen explains that the highly polished silkiness of his hackberry wood-turned platter comes from detailed chiseling with his woodworking tools, followed ... «LancasterOnline, Jul 15»
5
The foodie traveller … tries frozen sashimi in Japan
“It is somewhere between cubed ice and the silkiness of sorbet.” Not surprisingly, ruibe translates as “melted food”. Not generally expensive, ruibe can be found ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Bill Zacharkiw's wines of the week: July 11, 2015
Basic southern Rhône wine with a wonderful silkiness in the mid-palate. Full-on boozy cherry and ripe, easygoing tannins. It's hard not to love this. Not the most ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
7
Luyu and Yum Yum
And while it's not the most exciting Chinese food in town – the offerings have none of the grunt of a good Chinatown pot sticker or the fine, gossamer silkiness of ... «Good Food, Jul 15»
8
Los Angeles Lakers' D'Angelo Russell Will Win Rookie of the Year
Like Harden and Ginobili, he can play on or off the ball and he has the shooting ability and silkiness that Curry possesses. Russell was a 41 percent 3-point ... «RantSports, Jul 15»
9
Chiefs fans remember Joe Delaney, 32 years later
It's best when it looks like they're having fun, right? He had the shiftiness of Garrett, the silkiness of Marcus Allen, the speed of Jamaal, and, when he needed it, ... «Arrowhead Pride, Jun 15»
10
Vinography Unboxed: Week of May 24, 2015
Medium garnet in color, this wine smells of bright cranberry and raspberry fruit. In the mouth the wine has a gorgeous silkiness, and bright juicy flavors of ... «Vinography, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Silkiness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/silkiness>. Apr 2024 ».
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