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The property of being absorbent
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absorbency
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The action of absorbing. 2 The quality of being absorbent. (First attested in the mid 19 th century.) 3 (context physics English) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1762, noun of state from absorbent ; see -cy .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absorbency \Ab*sorb"en*cy\, n. Absorptiveness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being absorbent [ant: nonabsorbency ]
Usage examples of absorbency.
I am thankful for the coarse parchment's poor absorbency as I daub it up with a scrap of leftover paper-a sample of real paper that Foxe has brought for me to examine.
Absolutely precise absorbency, capable of accepting the finest engraving the platemakers can achieve.
I was still trying to jam those super absorbency plus ones of my mom's up in there, and, let me tell you, it wasn't quite working out for me.
Acacia gum, a dairy glue called casein, pink earth, gallic acid, powdered sulfates of green and turquoise, soot, lampblack, red wine, white wine, woad, ground bones, and gesso all modified the pigments in some way: thickening, creating textures, darkening, lightening, and altering color, shine, and absorbency.