🇬🇧 Viscosity meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Viscosity is a way to describe how easily a liquid flows. A liquid with low viscosity, like water or juice, flows and pours very quickly. A liquid with high viscosity, like honey or slime, is thick and slow and doesn’t want to move. Scientists measure viscosity to compare how runny or gooey different liquids are, kind of like giving each liquid a “speed score” for how fast it can flow.

The ketchup had such high viscosity that my fries got cold while it slowly oozed out of the bottle like a lazy snail.

My shampoo has such high viscosity that when I squeeze the bottle, it sighs and says, “Fine, I’ll come out… eventually.”

The viscosity of the mud was perfect: thick enough to trap my boots, but runny enough to splash my brother.

The viscosity of the paint was perfect for art but terrible for my pants, which are now a modern masterpiece.

Honey has higher viscosity than water because its sticky sugar molecules make it flow slowly.

At breakfast, Tom watched honey drip and tea run. He touched the honey: its viscosity kept a tall drop; the tea's lower viscosity slid away. He stirred the cup, saying viscosity as steam loosened syrup. Viscosity fell, the spoon moved free, and Tom cheered, amazed by the sticky-to-runny change in viscosity.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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