An absorptive article configured so that wrinkles in the absorptive article occurring when the absorptive article is worn by a wearer are reduced. This absorptive article is configured in such a manner that a surface sheet and a highly absorptive polymer sheet are joined together, a pair of wing sections respectively have ends in the longitudinal direction, longitudinal edges of the highly absorptive polymer sheet are located on the outside longitudinally of wing section action lines connecting the ends located side by side in the width direction, and the wing section action lines are located at the same positions as, or on the outside longitudinally of, folding positions at which the absorptive article is folded twice in the longitudinal direction in order to individually package the absorptive article.