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adherency

adherency noun: the state or quality of being adherent; adherence.

Noun

adherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
  2. (archaic, uncountable) A following; a group of adherents.
  3. (countable, obsolete) That which adheres.
    • ’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

adherency meaning in Urdu

adherency in Urdu

جُڑنے, چپکنے, سٹکنے, قائم رہنے کی صفت

Forms of adherency

pluraladherencies

Origin of adherency

Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia.

Questions about adherency

What does adherency mean?
Adherency means the state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
What is adherency in Urdu?
Adherency in Urdu is جُڑنے, چپکنے, سٹکنے. See Adherency meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is adherency?
Adherency is a noun.
What is the plural of adherency?
The plural of adherency is adherencies.

Words near adherency in the dictionary

  1. adhere
  2. adhered
  3. adherence
  4. adherences
  5. adherencies
  6. adherency
  7. adherend
  8. adherends
  9. adherens junction
  10. adherens junctions
  11. adherent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adherency (page history and authors); adherency (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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