In linguistics, describing languages that express concepts by combining morphemes (word-parts) into long compound words; also: tending to cause adhesion.
From Latin 'agglutinare' (to glue together) — 'ad-' (to) + 'glutinare' (to glue), from 'gluten' (glue). Turkish, Finnish, and Japanese are agglutinative — one word can be a whole sentence!
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