cohesion

Other forms of cohesion

plural

cohesions·

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 cohesion

What does cohesion mean?

cohesion means "the state of cohering or sticking together". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cohesion?

cohesion has 3 syllables: co-he-sion. The stress falls on "he". In IPA it is /koʊˈhiʒən/.

What is another word for cohesion?

Close synonyms include coherence, coherency, cohesiveness. 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 cohesion a common word?

cohesion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cohesion?

1 word rhymes with cohesion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.