adhesiveness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

From adhesive + -ness.

&c. &c. &c. This emphatic way of speaking is indicative of two very amiable feelings implanted by nature in the female occiput, and called by the Phrenologists Adhesiveness and Philoprogenitivenes. — The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue, Percival Leigh
Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville

adhesion, adherence, bond

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