Meaning
2 sensesA substance that provides cohesion
A device used to establish cohesion within a text
Examples
5 sentencesTheir team is not very cohesive.
ruУ них не очень сплочённая команда.
deIhr Team hält nicht gut zusammen.
A text could be coherent but not cohesive, and vice versa.
None of those thoughts are cohesive nor do they make sense independently.
The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.
Academic writing should be cohesive.
Origin
From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
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Forms
plural: cohesivesWord family
1 related wordsDerivedcohesive device