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• n  a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
  admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs
  some artists prefer the smoothness of a board
• n  powerful and effective language
  his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police
• n  the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
• n  the quality of having a level and even surface
  the water was a glassy smoothness
  the weather system of the Pacific is determined by the uninterrupted smoothness of the ocean
• n  the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
  the five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified

• Offense: Delivered rehearsed opposition research on Clinton's "votes and quotes" with astonishing smoothness.
• Teenage Ayers watches a burning car drive by and we assume it is the symptom of a rough neighborhood, but as it glides past with eerie smoothness, it is revealed to be hallucination.
• smoothness of Leonardo DiCaprio's face is deceptive.

• eloquence
• fluency
• suavity
• suaveness
• blandness

• roughness

News & Articles

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• Eight Miles Of Interstate 84 Work To Begin Friday In Eastern Cassia County
  Burley, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KTWT-TV ) – Crews will begin a resurfacing project on Interstate 84 in eastern Cassia County Friday, June 7. The Idaho Transportation Department said the project will repair rutting and potholing, and restore surface smoothness.
  June 6, 2013 - KMVT Twin Falls

Quotes

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• Laurie Anderson in Sydney Morning Herald
  She likes things with a lot of smoothness but with beats in them,Anderson said from her Manhattan loft. "Things with voices and lots of complicated high-end stuff. Chk-chk-chk-chk-chk : that kind of stuff."
• Mike Weir in ESPN
  He just has that kind of body, he's a big guy and he's kind of loose so I think he'll always kind of hit it far, even as he gets older,Weir said. "He just kind of has that smoothness to him that he can still move it out there with the...
• Camilla Rutherford in Telegraph.co.uk
  Unlike most vodkas in today's marketplace that use additives, glycol, citrus and sugar to improve smoothness and flavor, Crystal Head Vodka is a pure spirit with no additives. It is quadrupled distilled and filtered three times through charcoal... Dan Aykroyd http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Aykroyd&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH4BZnfgXHTew820jfmMoWiXGs0iA United Press International http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/10/10/Aykroyd_pitches_in_on_vodka_campaign/UPI-73911223684703/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGkSLLVQdd_TPUAj89QpzaCOqzaVg Oct 10, 2008 91538 121631 smoothy She is my biggest one yet, but it all went pretty smoothy," says Camilla, who already has two children, Hector and Maud, by her marriage to the publicist Rufus Abbott.