STICKINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stickiness mean? 

• STICKINESS (noun)
  The noun STICKINESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of sticking to a surface

  Familiarity information: STICKINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STICKINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of sticking to a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stickiness"):

adherence; adhesion; adhesiveness; bond (the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition)

Derivation:

sticky (having the sticky properties of an adhesive)

sticky (covered with an adhesive material)

sticky (moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body)