Crossword clues for absorbency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absorbency \Ab*sorb"en*cy\, n. Absorptiveness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1762, noun of state from absorbent; see -cy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The action of absorbing. 2 The quality of being absorbent. (First attested in the mid 19th century.) 3 (context physics English) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.(R:SOED5: page=9)
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.