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adherence

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun adherence has 2 senses

adherence(n = noun.act) adhesion, attachment - faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"

is a kind of support

has particulars: ecclesiasticism, cabalism, kabbalism, royalism, traditionalism

adherence(n = noun.attribute) adhesion, adhesiveness, bond - the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion"

is a kind of stickiness

Derived form adjective adherent₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

adherence, n. [Cf. F. adhérence, LL. adhaerentia.].

The quality or state of adhering. [1913 Webster]
The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion.

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THESAURUS

adherence

OK, acceptance, accordance, accretion, acquittal, acquittance, adhesion, admiration, agglomeration, agglutination, allegiance, approbation, approval, attachment, blessing, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, care, carrying out, cling, clinging, clotting, clustering, coagulation, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, compaction, compliance, concretion, condensation, conformance, conformity, congealment, congelation, conglobation, conglomeration, consolidation, constancy, countenance, devotedness, devotion, discharge, endorsement, esteem, execution, faith, faithfulness, favor, favorable vote, fealty, fidelity, firmness, fulfillment, good faith, heed, heeding, homage, inseparability, junction, keeping, loyalty, nod, observance, observation, performance, practice, respect, sanction, satisfaction, seal of approval, set, setting, solidification, stamp of approval, staunchness, steadfastness, sticking, tie, troth, true blue, trueness, voice, vote, yea, yea vote

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Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

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