Crossword clues for perviousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perviousness
Perviousness \Per"vi*ous*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness
of glass.
--Boyle.
Wiktionary
perviousness
n. The quality or state of being pervious.
WordNet
perviousness
n. the permeability of something that can be penetrated by a liquid [syn: penetrability] [ant: impenetrability, impenetrability]
Usage examples of "perviousness".
Taking as a model the expression 'transparent' for the perviousness of a substance to light, we may say that the air, when in a state of acoustic vibration, becomes 'trans-audient' for astral impulses, and that the nature of these vibrations determines which particular impulses are let through.