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NONABSORBENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonabsorbency mean?
• NONABSORBENCY (noun)
The noun NONABSORBENCY has 1 sense:
1. the property of not being absorbent
Familiarity information: NONABSORBENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of not being absorbent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("nonabsorbency" is a kind of...):
impermeability; impermeableness (the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid)
Antonym:
absorbency (the property of being absorbent)
Derivation:
nonabsorbent (not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids))
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