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PERVIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perviousness mean?
• PERVIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun PERVIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
Familiarity information: PERVIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
penetrability; perviousness
Hypernyms ("perviousness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Antonym:
imperviousness (the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.))
Derivation:
pervious (admitting of passage or entrance)
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