Porous vs Liquidity - What's the difference?
porous | liquidity |
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
(Of legislation) full of loopholes
(figuratively) With many gaps.
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(uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.
(economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
(finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
As an adjective porous
is full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.As a noun liquidity is
(uncountable) the state or property of being liquid.porous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
- Concrete is porous , so water will slowly filter through it.
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Synonyms
* (full of holes ): permeableliquidity
English
(wikipedia liquidity)Noun
- Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity .