Hypertext Webster Gateway: "porousness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Porousness \Por"ous*ness\, 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.
--Sir K.
Digby.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
porousness
n : the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids
[syn: {porosity}] [ant: {solidity}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.