stickiness
noun
stickiness is a noun meaning “The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-I-C-K-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stickiness is stickinesses.
What does stickiness mean?
noun
- 1
The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.
- 2
Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
- 3
Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
- 4
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
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
An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce stickiness?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stickiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stickiness
- stickinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stickiness?
Stickiness appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Stickiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property of sticking or adhering:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adhérence |
| Spanish | viscosidad, adherencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does stickiness come from?
From sticky + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).