COHESIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohesiveness mean? 

• COHESIVENESS (noun)
  The noun COHESIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of cohering or sticking together

2. the property of being cohesive and sticky

  Familiarity information: COHESIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHESIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of cohering or sticking together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being cohesive and sticky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cohesiveness; glueyness; gluiness; gumminess; ropiness; tackiness; viscidity; viscidness

Hypernyms ("cohesiveness" is a kind of...):

viscosity; viscousness (resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow))

 Context examples 

A traumatic injury involving interruption of tissue cohesiveness that results from exposure to caustic chemicals, extreme heat, extreme cold or excessive radiation.

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