cohesiveness

Other forms of cohesiveness

plural

cohesivenesses·

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 cohesiveness

What does cohesiveness mean?

cohesiveness means "the state of cohering or sticking together". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cohesiveness?

cohesiveness has 4 syllables: cohe-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si". In IPA it is /koʊˈhisɪvnəs/.

What is another word for cohesiveness?

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

cohesiveness 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.