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Porousness   Listen
noun
Porousness  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."





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"Porousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... first-rate Powers almost wiped out at a blow; since the Spaniards by their stubborn resistance have shown what the general arming of a nation and insurgent measures on a great scale can effect, in spite of weakness and porousness of individual parts; since Russia, by the campaign of 1812 has taught us, first, that an Empire of great dimensions is not to be conquered (which might have been easily known before), secondly, that the probability of final success ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz
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Words linked to "Porousness" :   permeableness, porous, consistency, porosity, solidity, permeability, body, eubstance, sponginess


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