The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absorptiveness
Absorptiveness \Ab*sorp"tive*ness\, n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
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absorptiveness
n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
Usage examples of "absorptiveness".
His characterisation was pointed with such wide-eyed and unsullied innocence, such eager and open-mouthed receptivity, such a succulently plastic amenability to suggestion, such rich response to flatteryin a word, with such a sublime absorptiveness to the old oilthat men such as Mr Quarterstone, on becoming conscious of him for the first time, ha been known to wipe away a furtive tear as they dug down into their pockets for first mortgages on the Tower of London and formul for extracting radium from old toothpaste tubes.