adhesiveness

1. 1.

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

   “the mutual adhesiveness of cells”

   “a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion”

   Synonymsadhesionadherencebond

   Broaderstickiness

Other forms of adhesiveness

plural

adhesivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adhesiveness

What does adhesiveness mean?

adhesiveness means "the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition".

How many syllables are in adhesiveness?

adhesiveness has 5 syllables: ad-he-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for adhesiveness?

Close synonyms include adhesion, adherence, bond. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adhesiveness a common word?

adhesiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.