porousness
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- noun
- /ˈpɔːrəsnəs/
:
porosidad
- Because of the porousness of the northern border with Somalia, the bombing of an Israeli-owned coastal hotel there in late 2002 was thought to be accomplished with weapons smuggled down the coast from Somalia by dhow.
It is a total picture of the porousness of life forms, all leaking light flaring up, scrawling their effects on water.
- It is a total picture of the porousness of life forms, all leaking light flaring up, scrawling their effects on water.
Examples
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The porousness of the sponge allows it to soak up water quickly.
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The porousness and permeability of DRC's vast territorial borders have blurred the analytical distinctions between internal domestic affairs and inter-regional or cross-border security concerns.
Academic text (2002) -
As the December 1999 Port Angeles terrorist arrest made clear, Americans have reason to worry about the porousness of their borders.
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The porousness allows the moisture on the outside to combine with the breeze and lower the temperature to keep the water cool.
Academic text (2003) -
Development bears with it three forces that have powerful political implications: diversity, inclusiveness, and porousness.
Academic text (1991) -
The novel highlights the porousness of the house; that is, boundaries may signal private property but cannot divide a space that exists in a continuum.
Academic text (2003) -
This is particularly perplexing in the case of the Arab world since one of its defining characteristics is national porousness and vulnerability to external influences.
Academic text (1994) -
Further, this sense of porousness serves to expose not only the city's buried, racialized bodies but also the behavior of the cityscape itself.
Academic text (2016) -
To Americans, the refugees onstage could appear at once alien and familiar, and their transnational performances celebrated the very porousness of national and cultural boundaries that concerned many Americans.
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I'd forgotten the porousness of the soil, the ant beds that clung like smushed hats to the sides of trees and spilled voluptuously onto the ground.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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How easily liquid or gas passes through a material like soil
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The amount of empty space in a material that lets water or other liquids pass through
How easily liquid moves through a material
The amount of empty space in a material that lets water or air pass
Antonyms
How Porous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Porousness comes from porous, which comes from an old Greek word poros meaning 'passage' or 'pore'. So, porousness is the quality of having many tiny holes that let water or air pass through.