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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cohesive \Co*he"sive\, adjective
1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
{Cohesive attraction}. See under {Attraction}. -- {Co*he"sive*ly}, adverb -- {Co*he"sive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: {coherence}, {coherency}, {cohesion}, {cohesiveness}] [ant: {incoherence}, {incoherency}]
2: the property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: {cohesiveness}, {glueyness}, {gluiness}, {gumminess}, {tackiness}, {ropiness}, {viscidity}, {viscidness}]
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