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Porousness   Listen
noun
Porousness  n.  
1.
The quality of being porous.
2.
The open parts; the interstices of anything. (R.) "They will forcibly get into the porousness of it."





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"Porousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking at the timbers of the ship. She is built of a material to which I am a stranger. There is a peculiar character about the wood which strikes me as rendering it unfit for the purpose to which it has been applied. I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age. It will appear perhaps an observation somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe


Words linked to "Porousness" :   sponginess, permeability, consistence, solidity, body


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