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n. - Resistance of a liquid to sheer forces (and hence to flow).

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Usage examples (7)
  • Notice the basic meanness and viscousness of his reply.
  • But I'm wondering about the viscousness, for lack of a better word, of the way the media has turned on this thing.
  • This Matter being in a fermentation, there arose some Bubbles by reason of its viscousness, and it chanc'd that in the midst of it there was a viscous
  • These memes played a large role in fueling ideas of ethinic self determination and further explained a lot of the viscousness of nineteenth/twentieth century conflict.
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