The property or capacity of a substance to absorb or soak up another substance; similar to absorbability.
From 'absorbent' + '-cy' (the state or quality of). A less common variant of 'absorbability,' appearing mainly in older scientific and technical literature.
This is basically the same as 'absorbability' but uses a different suffix—language evolves and one term eventually wins out. In this case, 'absorbability' became standard while 'absorbancy' faded!
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