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Sponginess

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being spongy. uncountable

    "Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered."

  2. 2
    the property of being able to occupy less space wordnet
  3. 3
    the porosity of a sponge wordnet

Etymology

From spongy + -ness.

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