Meanings
- uncountableThe 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe property of being able to occupy less space
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Italian spugnosità, spongiosità
- spugnositàproperty of being spongy
- spongiositàproperty of being spongy
Polish gąbczastość
- gąbczastośćproperty of being spongy
Cite this entry
sponginess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sponginess
“sponginess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sponginess. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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