noun permeability, receptiveness, retentiveness, ability to soak up or take in, sponginess, porousness, permeableness, perviousness You can use two nappies for extra absorbency at night.

Is it absorbent or absorbant?

As adjectives the difference between absorbant and absorbent

is that absorbant is while absorbent is having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive .

What does absorbency mean?

: the quality or state of being able to draw in or soak up. absorbency. noun.