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[syn: viscosity, viscousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Viscosity \Vis*cos"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. viscosit['e], LL.
viscositas.]
1. The quality or state of being viscous.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Physics) A property possessed by a viscous fluid, being a
resistance to the forces causing a fluid to flow, caused
by interactions between the molecules of the fluid and
between the fluid and the walls of the conduit through
which it moves; also, a measure of such a property.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
viscosity
n 1: resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
[syn: viscosity, viscousness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "viscosity":
adhesiveness, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, closeness,
clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, compactness,
congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, crowdedness,
curdling, denseness, density, doughiness, firmness, gelatinity,
gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness,
gumlikeness, gumminess, hardness, heaviness, impenetrability,
impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation,
inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, lentor,
mucilaginousness, obstinacy, pastiness, persistence, persistency,
relative density, retention, ropiness, slabbiness, sliminess,
snugness, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude,
stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness,
stubbornness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity,
thickening, thickness, tightness, toughness, treacliness,
viscidity, viscousness