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noun

Adhesiveness n.

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

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

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Etymology of 'Adhesiveness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adhesiveness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the kneading and rolling so clumsily that the nodule was malformed, but the majority were singularly symmetrical, evidencing nice adjustment between the degree of adhesiveness of the "pug" and the applied force of the wave. Several weighed nearly a quarter of a pound, while the majority were not much bigger than marbles, and the oval was the most ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... had been completed: the ideas of God as an ideal of Holiness, the idea of Sin as the antagonist force—had been perfected; they were now so inextricably worked into the texture of Jewish minds, or the Jewish minds were now arrived at their maximum of adhesiveness, or at their minimum of repulsiveness, in manners and social character, that this stage was perfect; and now came the five hundred years during which they were to manure all nations with these preparations ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... by which a copy belies its original. In colours it distinguishes nuances that a moderately trained vision will declare non-existent. Nor is the trained collector bound by the evidence of the eye alone. Of certain things he knows the taste or adhesiveness. His ear grasps the true ring of certain potteries, porcelains, or qualities of beaten metal. I know an expert on Japanese pottery who, when a sixth sense tells him that two pots apparently identical come really from different kilns, puts them behind ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

Words linked to "Adhesiveness" : adhesive, bond, stickiness, adherence