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1. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
   - smarm, fulsomeness
    
2. Smug self-serving earnestness
   - fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness
    
3. (medicine) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
   - ointment, unguent, balm, salve
    
4. Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
   - inunction

Derived forms: unctions

Type of: anointing, anointment, compliment, curative, cure, hypocrisy, religious ceremony, religious ritual, remedy, therapeutic

Encyclopedia: Unction