ROPINESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being cohesive and sticky

Synonyms:

cohesiveness; glueyness; gluiness; gumminess; ropiness; tackiness; viscidity; viscidness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ropiness" is a kind of...):

viscosity; viscousness (resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow))

Derivation:

ropy (forming viscous or glutinous threads)

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