Moist
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"Sartre developed a squeamishness about viscosity or gluey sliminess (he expressed disgust at the “moist and feminine sucking” that occurs when a sticky substance sticks to fingers) that led to his use of the term “viscosity” to express his horror of contingency."--At the Existentialist Café (2016) by Sarah Bakewell |
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- Slightly wet.
- 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: Book 1, Part 3.
- Thales, the founder of this type of philosophy, says the principle is water (for which reason he declared that the earth rests on water), getting the notion perhaps from seeing that the nutriment of all things is moist...
- 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: Book 1, Part 3.
- About to cry.
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