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POROSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids
Synonyms:
porosity; porousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("porosity" 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 "porosity"):
sponginess (the porosity of a sponge)
permeability; permeableness (the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion))
Antonym:
solidity (the consistency of a solid)
Derivation:
porous (full of pores or vessels or holes)
porous (able to absorb fluids)
