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VISCOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
Synonyms:
viscosity; viscousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("viscousness" is a kind of...):
body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viscousness"):
stickiness (the property of sticking to a surface)
sliminess (a property resembling or being covered with slime)
cohesiveness; glueyness; gluiness; gumminess; ropiness; tackiness; viscidity; viscidness (the property of being cohesive and sticky)
gelatinousness; glutinosity; glutinousness (the property of having a viscosity like jelly)
Derivation:
viscous (having a relatively high resistance to flow)
