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Adhesiveness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being adhesive, or of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity. In phrenology, a mental faculty manifested in attachment to objects, animate or inanimate, lasting friendships, love of social intercourse, etc., supposed to be located in a special part of the brain. It is said to be strongest in women. See phrenology.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
  • noun. Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being, or the degree to which a thing is, adhesive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
  • Word Usage
    "Add to this a kind of adhesiveness (we can hardly call it obstinacy or pertinacity) of temper, which can make no allowance for change of circumstances, and we think we have a tolerably clear notion of the causes of General McClellan's disasters."
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