POROUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porousness mean? 

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

1. the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POROUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

porosity; porousness

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

body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porousness"):

sponginess (the porosity of a sponge)

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

Derivation:

porous (able to absorb fluids)