Word Meanings - ADHESION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence;

Additional info about word: ADHESION

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey. 3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADHESION)

• Adherence
• Adhesion
• attachment
• devotion
• fidelity
• cleaving to
• constancy
• endearment

Related words: (words related to ADHESION)

• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• CLEAVAGE
  The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• ENDEARMENT
  The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.
• CLEAVERS
  A species of Galium , having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
• CLEAVABLE
  Capable of cleaving or being divided.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• ADHESION
  The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence;
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• CONSTANCY
  1. The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from hange; stability; fixedness; immutabilitu; asm the constancy of God in his nature and attributes. 2. Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness
• FIDELITY
  Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best
• DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
  One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
• ADHERENCE
  1. The quality or state of adhering. 2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now
• ATTACHMENT
  1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• INADHESION
  Want of adhesion.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• UNDEVOTION
  Absence or want of devotion.
• UNCONSTANCY
  Inconstancy. "The unconstancy of the foundation." Fuller.
• INCONSTANCY
  The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.