stickiness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STICKINESS, noun [from stick.] The quality of a thing which makes it adhere to a plane surface; adhesiveness; viscousness; glutinousness; tenacity; as the tenacity of glue or paste.
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