Twitter Google Share on Facebook effervescence Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Medical,Wikipedia. [‚ef·ər′ves·əns] (chemistry) The bubbling of a solution of an element or chemical compound as the result of the emission of gas without the application of heat; for example, the esc...
can make it self-protective and resistant to outside perspectives and information---particularly the overtures of marketers. A community that shares the same views rarely wants to risk that affinity by introduing ideas that could change the compact and chemistry that attracted the members in the ...
Sociologists have a five-dollar word for what makes a group cohesive:entitativity--- meaning the sense that a group has a conscious reason to exist in the first place. A simpler phrase sometimes used is "groupiness." As we noted earlier, utility plays a major part in the sensation of...