Associations to the word «Absorbency»

Wiktionary

ABSORBENCY, noun. (obsolete) The action of absorbing.
ABSORBENCY, noun. The quality of being absorbent. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
ABSORBENCY, noun. (physics) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.

Dictionary definition

ABSORBENCY, noun. The property of being absorbent.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky