soakage

noun

soak·​age

-kij,

-kēj

plural -s

1

: liquid that soaks through or out

also : the amount gained by absorption or lost by seepage

an analysis of the well water reveals no soakage from the cesspool

2

: the act or process of soaking : the state of being soaked

increase the soakage of rain into the geological layers which store water

—Sydney (Australia) Bulletin

white oak … is impervious to soakage through the pores

—F. P. Hankerson

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