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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POROUSNESS

n.The quality of having pores, porosity; as the porousness of the skin of an animal, or of wood, or of fossils. 1. The porous parts. [Not authorized. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POROUSNESS

POROUSNESS Por "ous *ness, 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. Sir K. Digby.