permeableness

Questions about permeableness

What does permeableness mean?

permeableness means "the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)".

How many syllables are in permeableness?

permeableness has 5 syllables and divides as per-me-a-ble-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for permeableness?

Close synonyms include permeability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is permeableness a common word?

permeableness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.