Cohesion

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act or state of sticking together; close union.

II. Cohesion ·noun Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

III. Cohesion ·noun That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike;

— distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.