Definition of "leakiness" [leak•i•ness]

• The property of being leaky. (noun)

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• "The story of her several sailings, her "leakiness," her final return, and her abandonment as unseaworthy, is familiar."
• "To this straining, Arber wholly ascribes the "leakiness" of the SPEEDWELL and the delay in the final departure of the MAYFLOWER, to which last he attributes the disastrous results he specifies."
• ""leakiness" with respect to the cycling of nutrients held in the soil-vegetation complex, although systems such as irrigated rice paddies, permanent tree crops and forests are inherently more sustainable than others."