Webster's English Dictionary

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capillarity

cap.il.lar.i.ty \.kap-*-'lar-*t-e-\ n 1: the quality or state of being 
   capillary  2: the action by which the surface of a liquid where it is in 
   contact with  a solid is elevated or depressed depending upon the relative 
   attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of 
   the solid