adherency

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia. === Noun === adherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies) (uncountable) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [from 17th c.] (uncountable, now rare) A following; a group of adherents. [from 17th c.] (countable, obsolete) That which adheres. [17th–18th c.] === Further reading === “adherency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “adherency, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.