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COHESIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being cohesive and sticky
Synonyms:
cohesiveness; glueyness; gluiness; gumminess; ropiness; tackiness; viscidity; viscidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cohesiveness" is a kind of...):
viscosity; viscousness (resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of cohering or sticking together
Synonyms:
coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cohesiveness" is a kind of...):
connectedness; connection; link (the state of being connected)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohesiveness"):
consistency (logical coherence and accordance with the facts)
continuity (uninterrupted connection or union)
Derivation:
cohesive (causing cohesion)
cohesive (cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated)
