different between stiffness vs cohesion

English

Etymology

From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff +? -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English st?þness (“stiffness”).

Noun

stiffness (countable and uncountable, plural stiffnesses)

1. Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
2. Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
3. Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

4. Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• cohæsion (archaic)

Etymology

Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesi?, cohaesi?nem.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko??hi??n/
• Rhymes: -i???n

Noun

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

1. State of cohering, or of working together.

2. (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
3. (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
4. (software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.

   Coordinate term: coupling
5. (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

Antonyms

• adhesion

Related terms

• coherence

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cohesion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary