fissility

English

Etymology

fissile +‎ -ity

Noun

fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)

1. The quality of being fissile.
2. (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.