The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.

Any substance that absorbs.

In an absorptive way.

plural of absorptive

The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness. / (thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.

(archaic) past participle of absorb

absorbed

(obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land. / assimilation; incorporation.

plural of absorption