Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being glutinous; glutinousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.
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- noun The quality of being
glutinous orviscous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of having a viscosity like jelly
Etymologies
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Compare French glutinosité.
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Examples
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At first she was aware only of texture: the surprising and even appealing glutinosity of each strand and the lubrication of the sauce, but finally she was aware of taste, too.
Surrender, Dorothy Meg Wolitzer 1999
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