Emollience
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Emollience is a noun meaning The state or quality of being emollient; soothingness; softness.
Meaning
The state or quality of being emollient; soothingness; softness.
More Meanings
- The act of soothing or appeasing; mollification.
Example Sentences
The party of William Sprigge and Robert Wood, the educational reformers, was not a force for emollience.
The closing years of "Old Labour" in Britain were years laced with corruption, cynicism, emollience, and drift.
TB [Tony Blair] felt we had to combine emollience of tone with the clear drive and direction of continuing reform.
The emollience of peach flesh, peach kernel oil, and creamy coconut milk, balanced with soothing chamomile and oat straw, makes this the perfect skin concoction.
Word Forms
- emolliences
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include emollition, emollient, amollishment, soothability, mollification, mellow.
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