POROSITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids

Synonyms:

porosity; porousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("porosity" is a kind of...):

body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porosity"):

sponginess (the porosity of a sponge)

permeability; permeableness (the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion))

Antonym:

solidity (the consistency of a solid)

Derivation:

porous (full of pores or vessels or holes)

porous (able to absorb fluids)