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Viscidity

noun
1.
The property of being cohesive and sticky.  Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidness.





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"Viscidity" Quotes from Famous Books



... semi-instructed minds; and is mainly committed in attempting to explain complicated phenomena by a simpler theory than their nature admits of. As when one school of physicians sought for the universal principle of all disease in "lentor and morbid viscidity of the blood," and imputing most bodily derangements to mechanical obstructions, thought to cure them by mechanical remedies;(257) while another, the chemical school, "acknowledged no source of disease but the presence of some hostile acid ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... not rejected any by design, merely because they were unnecessary or exuberant; but have received those which by different writers have been differently formed, as viscid, and viscidity, ...
— Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language • Samuel Johnson


Words linked to "Viscidity" :   viscosity, viscid, viscousness


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