fissility
English
Etymology
fissile + -ity
Noun
fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)
- The quality of being fissile.
- (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.
See also
- foliation
References
- fissility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.