cohesion
State of cohering, or of working together.
Example
“Unit cohesion is important in the military.”
Other meanings
Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
Synonyms
- coherence
Antonyms
- adhesion
Related words
- cohesin
- cohesional
- cohesionless
- decohesion
- discohesion
- dyscohesion
- dyshesion
- incohesion
- noncohesion
- sister chromatid cohesion
- social cohesion
Word history
From Latin "cohaesiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cohesion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.