COHESION, noun s as z. 1. The act of sticking together; the state of being united by natural attraction, as the constituent particles of bodies which unite in a mass, by a natural tendency; one of the different species of attraction. 2. Connection; dependence; as the cohesion of ideas. But in this sense, see Coherence.
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