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Meanings of ropiness 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
5
It would even be possible to make that 80s hallmark of tackiness, the tobacco grad.
Wired
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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
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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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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 ropiness in English
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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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