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Cohesiveness

Cohesive \Co*he"sive\, a.

  1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

  2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

    Cohesive attraction. See under Attraction. -- Co*he"sive*ly, adv. -- Co*he"sive*ness, n.

Wiktionary
cohesiveness

n. the state of being cohesive

WordNet
cohesiveness
  1. n. the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion] [ant: incoherence]

  2. the property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness]

Usage examples of "cohesiveness".

The challenge of shifts is that they are so small and so numerous that to maintain cohesiveness in all of them is a triumph.

Not only had the old sorcerers learned to displace their assemblage points to thousands of positions on the surface or on the inside of their energy masses but they had also learned to fixate their assemblage points on those positions, and thus retain their cohesiveness, indefinitely.

The cohesiveness of the old sorcerers was such that it allowed them to become perceptually and physically everything the specific position of their assemblage points dictated.

But Isler was no Saganami, and the sharp, high note of panic in his voice as he gabbled incoherent orders over the command net finished any hint of cohesiveness in his shattered force.

All they needed was the slightest shift of their assemblage points, the slightest perceptual cue from their dreaming, and they would instantaneously stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness, and be an animal, another person, a bird, or anything.

In particular, during the Gulf War, Saddam was determined to try to destroy the political cohesiveness of the U.

Subsidiary problems arise from the fact that such new populations may have one or all of various kinds of cohesiveness, that of a people, or of a race, or of a nation, or of a State, or of another Culture.

The second factor has been the aggressive unity of the Jew, his cohesiveness born of hate, which has welded him together and organized his forces for his mission of destruction.

All they needed was the slightest shift of their assemblage points, the slightest perceptual cue from their dreaming , and they would instantaneously stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness, and be an animal, another person, a bird, or anything.

It seems frequently to be the case that the cohesiveness that promotes survival is fostered just as effectively by shared belief systems within the social-political structures of science, whether those beliefs be true or not.

It was a standard response: get the englobing group to lose their cohesiveness and the value of their attack formation disintegrates almost immediately.