cohesive

Etymology

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

adj

1. Having cohesion.
   Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome. November 14, 2014, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
   “It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me. “Part of that was that climate change isn’t real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God’s ideal for society.” 2017-04-13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

noun

1. A substance that provides cohesion
   The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods. 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is
   Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives. 2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition
2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text
   The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT. 1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...