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Meanings of gumminess in English

The property of being cohesive and sticky.

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      Examples for "cohesiveness"
      Examples for "cohesiveness"
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      The album's name and cover art reinforce a new sense of cohesiveness.
      Reuters
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      A certain giving cohesiveness is part of the pleasure of melted cheese.
      On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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      Despite this, question marks remain over France's cohesiveness as a team.
      News.com.au
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      Hanna said the cohesiveness of the community became more prevalent during the lockdown.
      Radio NZ
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      Even the fuel door carries the character line, a nice bit of cohesiveness.
      BBC
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      He felt the tackiness of the sap on his skin and clothes.
      Book Two: Descent
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      You waved your damp palms around as they dried to tackiness.
      The whole world: a novel
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      Every year we love to hate the tackiness and saccharine sentimentality.
      The Guardian
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      Some of the concerns raised on Twitter include tackiness if you can believe that.
      The South African
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      It would even be possible to make that 80s hallmark of tackiness, the tobacco grad.
      Wired
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      Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity?
      More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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      Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.
      More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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      Ben peered ahead through the gloom, trying to see some difference in the texture and viscidity of the mist.
      The Tangle Box
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      The new-born worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire-gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.
      The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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      She placed her hands over her mother's, felt their heat, the slick of lotion on her skin, the slight ropiness of vein.
      Losing charlotte
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      Even when at its hottest, it is somewhat viscid, like treacle, and this viscidness increases as it cools.
      Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei...
      Usage of gumminess in English
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      Again, too much corn syrup should be avoided because it can cause gumminess.
      The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
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      A tincture of something was in the air, not overpowering, but it left a disagreeable acid gumminess in your mouth.
      Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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      And through it all, the same staccato rhythm of her heels, followed by the melted rubber gumminess of my jogging shoes.
      Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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      . She chafed her hands together, wiping off imagined gumminess.
      In the night room: a novel
      Gumminess through the time