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ROPINESS
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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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