Stickiness

Quick meaning: Stickiness is a noun meaning The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.

Meaning

The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.

More Meanings

1. Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
2. (economics): Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
3. (marketing, interface design) The presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner.
4. (psychology) An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.
5. (advertising) A research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement.

Example Sentences

The low stickiness rating helped explain why our ad’s brand linkage rating was so low: people were turned off by the blurriness of the main photo.

The stickiness of a cellphone might be measured by its ability to tell correct time, locate its user, and allow its user to remain connected regardless of location.

[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.

Word Forms

• stickinesses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adhesion, adherence, bonding, glue, grip, cohesiveness.

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