(from the article `papermaking`) An important test to control the quality of groundwood pulp is freeness: the readiness with which water drains from and through a wet pad of pulp. ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/60
Free'ness noun The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/74