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The property of being cohesive and sticky
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gumminess
Word definitions for gumminess in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gumminess \Gum"mi*ness\, n. The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being gummy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: cohesiveness , glueyness , gluiness , ropiness , viscidity , viscidness ]
Usage examples of gumminess.
An average potato, on its long journey from loamy meadow to those packets of dehydrated granules on your supermarket shelves, undergoes such intricate torture that its aptitude for gumminess is amplified many times over.
In contrast, a food mill shears more cells apart by scraping them across the screen as you turn the handle, but it is possible that our precooking technique will permit the use of a food mill without fear of gumminess and produce a perfectly smooth result at the same time.