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Pervious vs Perviousness - What's the difference?

pervious | perviousness |

As an adjective pervious

is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.

As a noun perviousness is

the quality or state of being pervious.

pervious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
    • a pervious soil
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
  • Accepting of new ideas.
  • Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
  • (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
    • (Prior)
  • (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

    • Antonyms

    * impervious

    See also

    * permeable * porous

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    perviousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or state of being pervious.
    • (Boyle)
    (Webster 1913)