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Adhesiveness

Adhesiveness \Ad*he"sive*ness\, n.

  1. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

  2. (Phren.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

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adhesiveness

n. the quality of being, or the degree to which a thing is, adhesive

WordNet
adhesiveness

n. the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition [syn: adhesion, adherence, bond]

Usage examples of "adhesiveness".

She was one of those soft natures whose power of adhesiveness to an acquired idea seems to be one of the special attributes of that softness.