rare. [n. of state f. L. absorbent-em: see ABSORBENT and -NCY.]
† 1. The action of absorbing (which would be properly absorbence); absorption. Obs.
1762. Dunn, Size of Sun, in Phil. Trans., LII. 469. Whether this effect arises from … absorbency of the rays, seems to me to deserve a proper enquiry.
2. The quality of being absorbent; absorptiveness.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Painting, 106. Ivory and enamel being quite smooth, and without texture or absorbency.
