Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being sticky, adhesive, or tenacious; viscousness; glutinousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being sticky.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the property of
sticking oradhering ;adhesion - noun
warmth andhumidity , as on amuggy day - noun economics, of prices or wages the
tendency to stay the same despite changes in theeconomy - noun marketing, interface design the presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner
- noun advertising a research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print ad.
- noun psychology an overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of sticking to a surface
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seems to me there's a certain "stickiness" to academic economists 'thinking about outsourcing's impact.
Labor Market Puzzle, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Market forces will squeeze profit margins, but the long-term stickiness of MMOs and the added profits makes the completely detached business suits see green only.
Oh great! 2004
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And then there is the matter of the "stickiness" - of keeping people using Google because they keep their email there.
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The other element protecting technology spending is its "stickiness" -- IT runs the business and therefore cannot be switched off, while spending on software maintenance, for example, is reviewed annually.
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If the idea isn’t too large or too weighty for the exposed surface of the pith to support, or the viscosity of its stickiness is not too low, the idea will stick.
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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As Daniel Davies wrote: The effect of nominal wage stickiness is a very small part of what’s bad about deflation.
Hayek and Tobin, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Containing the stickiness has been a bit of a challenge, but otherwise I just love this so much. 6 months later, it keeps getting better.
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Containing the stickiness has been a bit of a challenge, but otherwise I just love this so much. 6 months later, it keeps getting better.
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Containing the stickiness has been a bit of a challenge, but otherwise I just love this so much. 6 months later, it keeps getting better.
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I think we have long known that in America relative to other countries, we have so-called stickiness at the end, which is to say if you're born into the bottom income group, you're more likely to stay in that bottom group than in other countries.
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