Cohesion is the holding together of a group or a text. Social cohesion, team cohesion, cohesion and coherence.
In writing it is a technical term and distinct from coherence, since cohesion is the linking words that stitch sentences together and coherence is whether the whole makes sense. In physics it is the attraction between like molecules.
1nouncohesionThe holding together of a group or a text.
“The team lacked cohesion, and the players seemed to be playing separate games.”
cohesion is a holding together.
Latin cohaesio comes from cohaerere, to stick together, from com plus haerere, to cling.
French
cohésion
English, today
cohesion
Borrowed from French cohésion. Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA