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Slyness vs Flyness - What's the difference?

slyness | flyness |

As nouns the difference between slyness and flyness

is that slyness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being being sly while flyness is (aave|slang) the quality of being sharp or smart in appearance.

slyness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being being sly.
    • ''With his natural slyness , he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sly.

    • Synonyms

    * craftiness

    flyness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (AAVE, slang) The quality of being sharp or smart in appearance.
  • * 1999 , Vibe (volume 7, issues 1-2)
    • The charismatic 29-year-old Harlemite is the premier gladiator in a subterranean realm where the quest for flyness is the prime directive.
  • * 2004 , Cheryl Lynette Keyes, Rap music and street consciousness (page 194)
    • The fly personae in these films influenced a wave of black contemporary youth who resurrected flyness and its continuum in hip-hop culture.