ABSORBENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absorbency mean? 

• ABSORBENCY (noun)
  The noun ABSORBENCY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being absorbent

  Familiarity information: ABSORBENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSORBENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being absorbent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("absorbency" is a kind of...):

permeability; permeableness (the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion))

Attribute:

absorbent; absorptive (having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.))

nonabsorbent; nonabsorptive (not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids))

Antonym:

nonabsorbency (the property of not being absorbent)

Derivation:

absorbent (having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.))

 Context examples 

A process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency.

(Column Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes it is activated by heat to increase absorbency.

(Attapulgite, NCI Thesaurus)