adherency

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noun

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.

OriginMedieval Latin adhaerentia ← Latin adhaerēns ← Proto-Italic *ad- →
First used 17th c.Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nounadherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies)

plural adherencies

  1. uncountableThe state or quality of being adherent; adherence.First known use 17th c.
  2. archaicuncountableA following; a group of adherents.First known use 17th c.
  3. countableobsoleteThat which adheres.First known use 17th–18th c.

    ’twere happier if we would so far confute the text, that coming our selves from the dead, we would renounce communion with all Deaths adherencies […]

    1665 November 8, Richard Allestree, “Sermon XI. Christ-Church in Oxford […]”, in Eighteen Sermons, Whereof Fifteen Preached before the King. The Rest upon Publick Occasions, published 1669, page 198

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Latinhaereō
  6. Latinadhaereō
  7. Latinadhaerēns
  8. Medieval Latinadhaerentia
  9. Englishadherency

Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia.

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APA

adherency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adherency

MLA

“adherency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adherency. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adherency,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adherency.

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