kohäsives

Kohäsives is a German adjective meaning cohesive or holding together, used to describe systems, substances, or properties in which internal forces bind components to one another. The related noun Kohäsion denotes the quality or state of cohesion. In everyday and technical language, kohäsives characterizes how strongly elements within a single material or structure stick together.

In the natural sciences, kohäsives refers to internal cohesive forces within a substance that resist external separation. These forces arise from various types of bonding and interaction, such as ionic, covalent, metallic bonds, hydrogen bonds, and van der Waals forces. The strength of kohäsive forces influences material properties like tensile strength, fracture behavior, surface tension, and viscosity. A related concept is adhä­sion, which describes attraction between different substances; thus kohäsive forces act within a material, while adhesive forces act at interfaces between materials.

In linguistics, kohäsives is used less commonly as a standalone term, with the main concept expressed through Kohäsion and Kohäsionsmittel. Kohäsion refers to the textual links that bind sentences and ideas, while Kohäsionsmittel are the linguistic devices—such as pronouns, demonstratives, conjunctions, repetition, and ellipsis—that create coherence and flow within a text.

Etymologically, kohäsives derives from Kohäsion, itself rooted in Greek and Latin plus Germanic adaptation, and it functions primarily as an attributive adjective or predicative descriptor in technical contexts.

See also: Kohäsion, Kohäsionskräfte, Adhäsion, Kohäsionsmittel, Textlinguistik.