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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

... men, of however various and distant lands, into a brotherhood, a family. It is the old, yet ever-modern dream of earth, out of her eldest and her youngest, her fond philosophers and poets. Not that half only, individualism, which isolates. There is another half, which is adhesiveness or love, that fuses, ties and aggregates, making the races comrades, and fraternizing all. Both are to be vitalized by religion, (sole worthiest elevator of man or State,) breathing into the proud, material tissues, the breath ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... familiar with Shakespeare's text than many better scholars. His familiarity is proved by a habit of quotation of which it has been disputed whether it is a merit or a defect. What phrenologists would call the adhesiveness of Hazlitt's mind, its extreme retentiveness for any impression which has once been received, tempts him to a constant repetition of familiar phrases and illustrations. He has, too, a trick of working in patches of his old essays, which he expressly defends ...

— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen

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