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December 18, 2010 Word of the Day

‎12-18-2010 05:08 PM

December 18, 2010

Word of the Day

  • cohesive
  • koh-HEE-siv
  • DEFINITION

adjective

: exhibiting or producing a condition in which people or things are closely united
  • EXAMPLES

Theirs was a cohesive and loving family, sticking together through bad times and good.

"Put simply, arts and culture initiatives are essential to creating vibrant, prosperous and socially cohesive communities." -- From an article by Neil Darwin in Local Government Chronicle (LGC), September 30, 2010

  • DID YOU KNOW?

Our first example sentence contains a hint about the "sticky" origins of today's word -- "cohesive" ultimately derives from Latin "haerere," meaning "to stick." Other descendants of "haerere" in English include "adhere" ("to stick"), "inhere" ("to belong by nature or habit"), and even "hesitate." "Haerere" teamed up with the prefix "co-" to form "cohaerere," an ancestor of "cohesive," "cohesion" ("a sticking together"), "cohere" ("to stick together"), and "coherent" ("able to stick together" or "logically consistent").

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