stickiness

English

Etymology

sticky +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

stickiness (usually uncountable, plural stickinesses)

1. The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.
   • 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2014:

     […] 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.

2. Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
3. (economics): Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
4. (marketing, interface design) The presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner.

   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.

5. (advertising) A research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement.

   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.

6. (psychology) An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.

Translations

property of sticking or adhering

• Finnish: tahmeus (fi)
• French: adhérence (fr) f
• Ido: adheremeso (io)
• Irish: greamaitheacht f
• Italian: vischiosità f, collosità f, aderenza (it) f
• Japanese: 粘粘 (ねばねば, ネバネバ, nebaneba)
• Polish: lepkość (pl) f, kleistość (pl) f, czepliwość (pl) f, przylepność f
• Spanish: viscosidad f, adherencia (es) f

warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day

(economics) of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy

(marketing, interface design) the presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner

(advertising) a research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement

(psychology) an overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations

See also

• advertising
• attention
• brand linkage
• copy testing