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▸ noun: The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
▸ noun: The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
▸ noun: The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
▸ noun: (physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
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persistency,
persistence,
pertinacity,
tenaciousness,
doggedness,
perseverence,
tenacy,
pertinacy,
persistiveness,
untenacity,
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steel blue,
charcoal,
midnight blue,
forest green,
burgundy,
slate gray,
indigo,
maroon,
olive drab,
navy blue
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