Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cohesion

3 senses of cohesion

Sense 1
coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness -- (the state of cohering or sticking together)
       => connection, link, connectedness -- (the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable")

Sense 2
cohesion -- ((botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals))
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")

Sense 3
cohesion -- ((physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid)
       => force -- ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration")