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comparative more absorptive, superlative most absorptive
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent. quotations examples
In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
1939, British White Paper of Palestine of 1939
plural absorptives
Any substance that absorbs. examples