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HYGROSCOPICITY
Etymology
Noun
hygroscopicity (countable and uncountable, plural hygroscopicities)
(uncountable) The state of being hygroscopic.
(countable) The degree to which a substance is hygroscopic.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy`gro*sco*pic"i*ty, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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