cohesion

/koʊˈhiʒən/

/kəʊˈhiʒɪn/

Other forms: cohesions

Cohesion means sticking together. If your group of friends heads to the lunchroom as a team and sits all together, you're demonstrating strong cohesion.

Cohesion is a word that comes to us through physics, where cohesion describes particles that are the same and tend to stick together — water molecules, for example. Outside of physics, cohesion describes unity among parts, and is something to be sought after. A team that has good cohesion is often a team that wins.

Definitions of cohesion

1. noun

   the state of cohering or sticking together
   synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness

   types:

   consistency

   logical coherence and accordance with the facts

   continuity

   uninterrupted connection or union

   type of:

   connectedness, connection, intersectionality, link

   the state of being connected
2. noun

   (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
   type of:

   development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

   (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
3. noun

   (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
   type of:

   force

   (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity