stickinessn.¹

Brit.

/ˈstɪkɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈstɪkinᵻs/

Forms: 1600s stickyness, 1700s– stickiness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sticky adj.², -ness suffix.

Etymology: < sticky adj.² + -ness suffix.

a. The quality of being sticky, adhesiveness; (also) glutinousness, viscosity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [noun]

un-i-willa1225

unlustc1230

dangerc1290

loathnessa1300

thronessa1400

grudgingc1420

nilling?a1425

unlustiness?a1425

loathinessc1449

difficulty?c1450

grudge1477

sticking1525

scruple1526

unreadiness1526

sweerness1533

dangerousness1548

untowardnessa1555

envy1557

loathsomeness1560

retractation1563

stickling1589

indisposition1593

loathfulness1596

backwardness1597

unwillingness1597

reluctation1598

offwardness1600

undisposedness1600

hinka1614

reluctancy1621

reluctancea1628

renitence1640

nolencea1651

nolencya1651

indisposedness1651

shyness1651

nolition1653

costiveness1654

sullenness1659

scrupling1665

regret1667

queerness1687

stickiness1689

disinclination1695

uneasinessa1715

tarditude1794

disclination1812

inalacrity1813

grudgingness1820

tarrowing1832

reticence1863

grudgery1889

balkiness1894

safety first1913

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun]

thicknessc1000

gleiminessa1398

gleimingness1398

glutinosityc1400

viscositya1425

threadinessc1425

gleimousnessc1440

clamminess1528

clammishness1528

yolkiness1528

toughness1574

viscousness1594

gumminess1600

gluishness1608

glueyness1611

viscidity1611

gummosity1651

tenaciousness1658

viscuousness1658

glutinousnessa1661

plasteriness1660

ropishness1662

snivelliness1662

ropiness1663

gummousness1666

stickiness1689

clam1694

viscidness1710

glairiness1866

treacliness1884

slabness1892

yuckiness1982

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > adhesion > adhesive quality

stickiness1689

adhesiveness1721

stick1853

tack1876

tackiness1883

clinginess1899

1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xix. 144 Precious stone Fragments, or Amber, whose weight or stickyness doth impower them to clog and oppress the Stomach.

1724 Remarks Dr. Cheyne's Ess. Health & Long Life 24 The most rarify'd Liquor has the least Cohæsion [margin] The least stickiness.

1772 J. Marshall Travels 1768–70 III. v. 180 The soil..without any of that tenacious stickiness which is so disagreeable in moving through a clay country.

1800 Gentleman's Mag. 70 i. 45 Which is preferable, the stickiness of the honey, or the greasiness of the hair?

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. 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.

1920 Times 22 May 17/5 The most suitable time is when the soil begins to dry after a shower, and has lost its stickiness but still has plenty of moisture.

1980 G. Clarke in Poetry Wales Autumn 68 I wade forward with my scythe. There is stickiness on the blade.

2005 G. Chavez Raw Food Gourmet ix. 131 The other main ingredient is some kind of dried fruit for sweetness and stickiness.

b. figurative. Excessive sweetness or sentimentality; mawkishness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun]

sentiment1747

sentimentality1770

mawkishness1796

sensiblerie1815

sentimentalism1818

sloppiness1828

morbidezza1833

milk-and-wateriness1834

maudlin1838

soothing syrup1839

emotionalism1846

stickiness1864

slop1866

mushiness1868

saccharinity1868

sympatheticism1884

hearts and flowers1911

lovey-doveyness1923

schmaltz1934

goop1950

goo1951

schmaltziness1953

gloop1957

cheesiness1963

soupiness1963

soft-centredness1967

soppiness1974

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

1902 Sat. Rev. 15 Feb. 204/2 She gives us never that horrible, cloying stickiness of sentiment through which the Hoods and Willses have (presumably) enriched themselves.

1961 Summer Texan (Austin) 1 Aug. 5/2 Beulah Bondi could only..moan about how bitter she was—oblivious to the sea of stickiness in which the movie was awash.

2004 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 5 Sept. k7 The cozy domesticity of his view of a young woman brushing a cat illustrates his ability to deal with potentially sentimental subjects while avoiding emotional stickiness.

a. Unwillingness to cooperate or be helpful; intransigence, recalcitrance, obstructiveness. Cf. sticky adj.² 6b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > quality of being obstructive

obstructiveness1727

stickiness1890

1890 Jrnl. United Service Inst. India 19 353 Most of our battles have been won by that good old Anglo-Saxon attribute of sheer dogged pluck and obstinacy, in combination with Scotch stickiness.

1933 C. Mackenzie Water on Brain viii. 115 Major Hunter-Hunt let his emotion over the stickiness of the Treasury evaporate in a deep sigh.

1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder viii. 167 He had not imagined..that there was anything more in Billson's recalcitrance..than his usual official stickiness.

2015 R. Youngs Climate Change & European Security iv. 55 The EU's external climate policy has been the product of domestic factors, inter-institutional rivalries and bureaucratic stickiness.

b. Economics. Slowness in reacting to altered conditions; resistance to change. Cf. sticky adj.² 5b.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy

inflation1821

economic cycle1832

recovery1843

downdraught1852

perfect competition1853

downturn1858

softness1872

slump1888

downtrend1890

sag1891

under-consumption1895

recession1905

downdrift1906

economic recession1908

air pocket1913

stickiness1913

trough1916

deflation1920

downswing1922

slowdown1922

scissors1924

scissors crisis1925

uptrend1926

reflation1932

depresh1933

upswing1934

stagnation1938

countercycle1944

fiscal cliff1957

turn-down1957

stagflation1965

soft landing1973

slumpflation1974

downer1976

1913 Cambr. Rev. 27 Nov. 163/1 The quantity of credit money issued by banks will produce variations in the volume of production and employment owing to..the stickiness of money wages.

1964 Rev. Econ. Stud. 31 121 A theory of the competitive firm in which price and wage stickiness delay the adjustment to changed commodity demand.

1991 Oxf. Econ. Papers 43 327 Nominal stickiness presents the government with the opportunity of reducing the effects of these distortions by monetary ‘surprises’.

2009 Daily Tel. 15 July (Business section) b1/2 The most likely explanation for the apparent stickiness of UK inflation is the lagged impact of last year's sterling depreciation.

3. Awkwardness; unpleasantness; difficulty. Cf. sticky adj.² 6a.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or awkwardness of circumstance

awkwardness1788

stickiness1948

1948 P. G. Wodehouse Spring Fever xiii. 126 The intense stickiness of the situation.

1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl xii. 186 You do seem to have involved her in some sort of stickiness.

1996 Entertainm. Weekly 24 May 16/1 James Dean..arrives in mailboxes without the fat-vs.-thin stickiness that surrounded the issuing of the Elvis Presley postage stamp.

2012 National Jrnl. (Nexis) 30 Mar. The justices acknowledged the stickiness of the situation.

4. With reference to a website, mobile app, etc.: the ability to attract long or repeated visits from users. Cf. sticky adj.² 7c.

ΚΠ

1998 Industry Standard 10 Aug. 20/1 Amazon.com now appears to be collecting properties that will give its site the magic characteristic of ‘stickiness’—Web argot for features that make users spend time in one place.

2001 M. Diffley Internet Prophets (2002) v. 57 Stickiness is generally measured by the length of time a user stays on a Web site.

2005 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 31 July a1 One of the most prized qualities on Internet TV is ‘stickiness’—getting viewers to stay put.

2011 R. Ford & J. Wiedermann App & Mobile Case Study Bk. i. 83 Monster Dash didn't have the extreme level of addictiveness and viral stickiness that Fruit Ninja did.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stickiness
释义	stickinessn.¹ Brit. /ˈstɪkɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈstɪkinᵻs/ Forms: 1600s stickyness, 1700s– stickiness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sticky adj.², -ness suffix. Etymology: < sticky adj.² + -ness suffix. 1. a. The quality of being sticky, adhesiveness; (also) glutinousness, viscosity. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [noun] un-i-willa1225 unlustc1230 dangerc1290 loathnessa1300 thronessa1400 grudgingc1420 nilling?a1425 unlustiness?a1425 loathinessc1449 difficulty?c1450 grudge1477 sticking1525 scruple1526 unreadiness1526 sweerness1533 dangerousness1548 untowardnessa1555 envy1557 loathsomeness1560 retractation1563 stickling1589 indisposition1593 loathfulness1596 backwardness1597 unwillingness1597 reluctation1598 offwardness1600 undisposedness1600 hinka1614 reluctancy1621 reluctancea1628 renitence1640 nolencea1651 nolencya1651 indisposedness1651 shyness1651 nolition1653 costiveness1654 sullenness1659 scrupling1665 regret1667 queerness1687 stickiness1689 disinclination1695 uneasinessa1715 tarditude1794 disclination1812 inalacrity1813 grudgingness1820 tarrowing1832 reticence1863 grudgery1889 balkiness1894 safety first1913 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun] thicknessc1000 gleiminessa1398 gleimingness1398 glutinosityc1400 viscositya1425 threadinessc1425 gleimousnessc1440 clamminess1528 clammishness1528 yolkiness1528 toughness1574 viscousness1594 gumminess1600 gluishness1608 glueyness1611 viscidity1611 gummosity1651 tenaciousness1658 viscuousness1658 glutinousnessa1661 plasteriness1660 ropishness1662 snivelliness1662 ropiness1663 gummousness1666 stickiness1689 clam1694 viscidness1710 glairiness1866 treacliness1884 slabness1892 yuckiness1982 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > adhesion > adhesive quality stickiness1689 adhesiveness1721 stick1853 tack1876 tackiness1883 clinginess1899 1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xix. 144 Precious stone Fragments, or Amber, whose weight or stickyness doth impower them to clog and oppress the Stomach. 1724 Remarks Dr. Cheyne's Ess. Health & Long Life 24 The most rarify'd Liquor has the least Cohæsion [margin] The least stickiness. 1772 J. Marshall Travels 1768–70 III. v. 180 The soil..without any of that tenacious stickiness which is so disagreeable in moving through a clay country. 1800 Gentleman's Mag. 70 i. 45 Which is preferable, the stickiness of the honey, or the greasiness of the hair? 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. 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. 1920 Times 22 May 17/5 The most suitable time is when the soil begins to dry after a shower, and has lost its stickiness but still has plenty of moisture. 1980 G. Clarke in Poetry Wales Autumn 68 I wade forward with my scythe. There is stickiness on the blade. 2005 G. Chavez Raw Food Gourmet ix. 131 The other main ingredient is some kind of dried fruit for sweetness and stickiness. b. figurative. Excessive sweetness or sentimentality; mawkishness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] sentiment1747 sentimentality1770 mawkishness1796 sensiblerie1815 sentimentalism1818 sloppiness1828 morbidezza1833 milk-and-wateriness1834 maudlin1838 soothing syrup1839 emotionalism1846 stickiness1864 slop1866 mushiness1868 saccharinity1868 sympatheticism1884 hearts and flowers1911 lovey-doveyness1923 schmaltz1934 goop1950 goo1951 schmaltziness1953 gloop1957 cheesiness1963 soupiness1963 soft-centredness1967 soppiness1974 1864 Athenæum 14 May 683/3 [The picture] is almost free from over-sweetness, or ‘stickiness’, as some call it. 1902 Sat. Rev. 15 Feb. 204/2 She gives us never that horrible, cloying stickiness of sentiment through which the Hoods and Willses have (presumably) enriched themselves. 1961 Summer Texan (Austin) 1 Aug. 5/2 Beulah Bondi could only..moan about how bitter she was—oblivious to the sea of stickiness in which the movie was awash. 2004 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 5 Sept. k7 The cozy domesticity of his view of a young woman brushing a cat illustrates his ability to deal with potentially sentimental subjects while avoiding emotional stickiness. 2. a. Unwillingness to cooperate or be helpful; intransigence, recalcitrance, obstructiveness. Cf. sticky adj.² 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > quality of being obstructive obstructiveness1727 stickiness1890 1890 Jrnl. United Service Inst. India 19 353 Most of our battles have been won by that good old Anglo-Saxon attribute of sheer dogged pluck and obstinacy, in combination with Scotch stickiness. 1933 C. Mackenzie Water on Brain viii. 115 Major Hunter-Hunt let his emotion over the stickiness of the Treasury evaporate in a deep sigh. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder viii. 167 He had not imagined..that there was anything more in Billson's recalcitrance..than his usual official stickiness. 2015 R. Youngs Climate Change & European Security iv. 55 The EU's external climate policy has been the product of domestic factors, inter-institutional rivalries and bureaucratic stickiness. b. Economics. Slowness in reacting to altered conditions; resistance to change. Cf. sticky adj.² 5b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy inflation1821 economic cycle1832 recovery1843 downdraught1852 perfect competition1853 downturn1858 softness1872 slump1888 downtrend1890 sag1891 under-consumption1895 recession1905 downdrift1906 economic recession1908 air pocket1913 stickiness1913 trough1916 deflation1920 downswing1922 slowdown1922 scissors1924 scissors crisis1925 uptrend1926 reflation1932 depresh1933 upswing1934 stagnation1938 countercycle1944 fiscal cliff1957 turn-down1957 stagflation1965 soft landing1973 slumpflation1974 downer1976 1913 Cambr. Rev. 27 Nov. 163/1 The quantity of credit money issued by banks will produce variations in the volume of production and employment owing to..the stickiness of money wages. 1964 Rev. Econ. Stud. 31 121 A theory of the competitive firm in which price and wage stickiness delay the adjustment to changed commodity demand. 1991 Oxf. Econ. Papers 43 327 Nominal stickiness presents the government with the opportunity of reducing the effects of these distortions by monetary ‘surprises’. 2009 Daily Tel. 15 July (Business section) b1/2 The most likely explanation for the apparent stickiness of UK inflation is the lagged impact of last year's sterling depreciation. 3. Awkwardness; unpleasantness; difficulty. Cf. sticky adj.² 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or awkwardness of circumstance awkwardness1788 stickiness1948 1948 P. G. Wodehouse Spring Fever xiii. 126 The intense stickiness of the situation. 1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl xii. 186 You do seem to have involved her in some sort of stickiness. 1996 Entertainm. Weekly 24 May 16/1 James Dean..arrives in mailboxes without the fat-vs.-thin stickiness that surrounded the issuing of the Elvis Presley postage stamp. 2012 National Jrnl. (Nexis) 30 Mar. The justices acknowledged the stickiness of the situation. 4. With reference to a website, mobile app, etc.: the ability to attract long or repeated visits from users. Cf. sticky adj.² 7c. ΚΠ 1998 Industry Standard 10 Aug. 20/1 Amazon.com now appears to be collecting properties that will give its site the magic characteristic of ‘stickiness’—Web argot for features that make users spend time in one place. 2001 M. Diffley Internet Prophets (2002) v. 57 Stickiness is generally measured by the length of time a user stays on a Web site. 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 31 July a1 One of the most prized qualities on Internet TV is ‘stickiness’—getting viewers to stay put. 2011 R. Ford & J. Wiedermann App & Mobile Case Study Bk. i. 83 Monster Dash didn't have the extreme level of addictiveness and viral stickiness that Fruit Ninja did. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stickinessn.² Brit. /ˈstɪkɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈstɪkinᵻs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sticky adj.¹, -ness suffix. Etymology: < sticky adj.¹ + -ness suffix. Theatre. With reference to an actor or performance: stiffness, woodenness, or stiltedness. Cf. stick n.¹ 13b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state or quality of being immovable > difficultly of movement stickiness?1847 ?1847 S. Coleridge Let. Nov. in P. Swaab Regions of S. Coleridge's Thought (2012) vii. 173 The dreadful stickiness of D. Arlon made a fool of her part. 1859 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 2 Apr. 281/3 The only actor in the establishment towards whom we entertain an objection, he being a ‘stick’ of the most undeniable stickiness. 1959 Illustr. London News 28 Feb. 358/2 The Old Vic company found the massaged text congenial, and this ‘Tartuffe,’ after a certain stickiness at the opening, climbed easily to the unmasking of the direst hypocrite on record. 2002 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 6 Oct. 77 There was a stickiness about this show... There ought to have been much more fluidity and naturalness here in place of the often stilted dialogue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1689n.²?1847
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