porousness
- a word derived from porous.
Example Sentences
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Our critic said that the director/choreographer Deborah Colker “vividly uses dance and scenic effects to conjure the porousness of the border between the worlds of the living and the dead.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Two fears, Dr. Becky explains, accompany DFKs’ porousness:
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
The porousness of the border is apparent about 20 miles down the road, at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing, uniting Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey - the busiest such border in Europe.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
Our aim is different, but it’s a similar set of skills that has to do with a porousness, of listening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
Experiments to prove the porousness of the skin of Vegetables.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert