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ˈporousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being porous; porosity.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. vii. §6. 186 Porousness, Spunginess, fungous, sinking, hollow. 1670Capt. J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 16 Marle..by its glutinous substance being incorporated with the sand, closes the hollows and porousness thereof. 1775Strange in Phil. Trans. LXV. 419 This porousness I also remember to have once before observed. Mod. There is a constant evaporation from the surface of the jar, on account of the porousness of the material.
fig.1904Daily News 6 June 3 Not less striking was the evident porousness of this over seventy-year-old man to fresh conceptions of truth.
b. concr. Porous substance or part rare.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies iv. §4. 28 They will forcibly gett into the porousnesse of it, and passe with violence betweene part and part. |