[f. STICKY a.2 + -NESS.] The quality of being sticky; adhesiveness, glutinousness.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Stickiness, Aptness to stick to.

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1755.  Johnson, Stickiness, adhesive quality; viscosity; glutinousness; tenacity.

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1800.  Gentl. Mag., LXX. I. 45. Which is preferable, the stickiness of the honey, or the greasiness of the hair?

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 601. In the case [of peritonitis] there may be merely some injection of polished surface, and in its place a general stickiness.

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  fig.  1864.  Athenæum, 14 May, 683/3. [The picture] is almost free from over-sweetness, or ‘stickiness,’ as some call it.

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