spongy
adjective
of the nature of or resembling a sponge; light, porous, and elastic or readily compressible, as pith or bread.
sponginess
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a word derived from
spongy.
Example Sentences
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Because he’s a bread baker, he’s looking at the sponginess of the cake, he’s looking at the moisture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
This does, however, pre-season the eggplant before breading it and can help reduce the "sponginess" of the eggplant, allowing it to crisp up better.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022
His new, weird, soft sponginess is unsettling at best, and though his furred friends are a little less off-putting, it’s not by much.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
For me, it was more of a texture issue, so the way I eased into mushroom eating was to buy them fresh and cook the sponginess out of them.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
But the subsoil and rocks below, are far from being of a uniform character: they are full of layers of every imaginable degree of sponginess.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton
