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sponginess

sponginess noun: the property of being spongy.

Noun

sponginess (uncountable)

  1. The property of being spongy.
    • Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered.1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79

Origin of sponginess

From spongy + -ness.

Questions about sponginess

What does sponginess mean?
Sponginess means the property of being spongy.
What part of speech is sponginess?
Sponginess is a noun.

Words near sponginess in the dictionary

  1. spongillafly
  2. spongillid
  3. spongillids
  4. spongily
  5. spongin
  6. sponginess
  7. sponging
  8. sponging down
  9. sponging house
  10. sponging houses
  11. sponging out

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