Crossword clues for viscidity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viscidity \Vis*cid"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. viscidit['e].] The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An adhesive quality. 2 A glutinous consistency.
WordNet
n. the property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidness]
Usage examples of "viscidity".
But the best of all he had discovered in a small shop specialising in Oriental medicines (sent thither by a Chinese waiter) -- a powerful black viscidity that oozed sinisterly from a tube to bring wind up from Tartarean depths.
Ben peered ahead through the gloom, trying to see some difference in the texture and viscidity of the mist He did not slow, thinking that if he did they might stop, and if they stopped they were lost.
Ben peered ahead through the gloom, trying to see some difference in the texture and viscidity of the mist.
The soil was a grey dust in places and a grey viscidity of slime in others.
Great tails lashed in frenzied anger about us, razor-like talons cut our limbs and bodies, and a green and sticky syrup, such as oozes from a crushed caterpillar, smeared us from head to foot, for every cut and thrust of our longswords brought spurts of this stuff upon us from the severed arteries of the plant men, through which it courses in its sluggish viscidity in lieu of blood.