Definition of "glutinousness" []

• The quality of being glutinous. (noun)

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• "The jin dui that he makes, for instance, may have a different filling, but it has the tradition of glutinousness or stickiness in many Chinese delicacies."
• "Moreover, a great many eatable objects have hardly any taste of their own, properly speaking, but only a feeling of softness, or hardness, or glutinousness in the mouth, mainly observed in the act of chewing them."
• "But the reason of it seems plain, for being to move to and fro after that manner which they do, by waving onely, or wrigling their body; the tenacity, or glutinousness, and the density or resistance of the fluid _medium_ becomes so exceeding sensible to their extremely minute bodies, that it is to me indeed a greater wonder that they move them so fast as they do, then that they move them no faster."