viscosity

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From Middle French viscosité, from Old French viscosité, from Medieval Latin viscositas; analysable as viscous + -ity.

I can't argue about the matter of meteors because Mr. Meek has not given any figures concerning the density or viscosity of his medium. — Astounding Stories, May, 1931, Various
Oil, sweat, filth; or the sordes of the body: an excrementitious viscosity, the excrements of oil and other ointments used about the body, and mixed with the sordes of the body: all base and loathsome. — Meditations, Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
No man will ever doubt the plasticity, the "viscosity" of ice, as it used to be styled in the old glacier controversies, who has passed over the "rubber" ice that forms under certain circumstances and at certain seasons on these rivers. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck

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