cohesion

noun

1. the state of cohering or sticking together
2. (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
3. (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
4. (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning."While lexical cohesion is obviously achieved by the selection of vocabulary, the other types of cohesion are considered as grammatical cohesion."