porosity

Questions about porosity

What does porosity mean?

porosity means "the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids".

How many syllables are in porosity?

porosity has 4 syllables: po-ro-si-ty. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for porosity?

Close synonyms include porousness. 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.

What is the opposite of porosity?

The recorded antonyms are solidity.

Is porosity a common word?

porosity 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.