Provided is an absorbent article in which elastic members thereof acting on slits thereof causes each of the slits to be definitively opened while the article is being worn. This absorbent article has a vertical direction, a horizontal direction and a thickness direction which are perpendicular to one another, and has a ventral-side outer member positioned in the horizontal direction and a dorsal-side outer member positioned in the horizontal direction. Therein: the ventral-side outer member and the dorsal-side outer member are each equipped with a non-skin-side sheet on the non-skin side thereof and a skin-side sheet on the skin side thereof； the ventral-side outer member and/or the dorsal-side outer member have a plurality of slits extending for a prescribed length in the horizontal direction and provided in the non-skin-side sheet or the skin-side sheet； the plurality of slits are provided in the horizontal and vertical directions at prescribed intervals from one another； a plurality of rubber threads are provided in the horizontal direction between the non-skin-side sheet and the skin-side sheet； one of the slits is provided between one of the rubber threads and another rubber thread that are adjacent to one another in the vertical direction； and the distance between the one slit and the one rubber thread is different than the distance between the one slit and the other rubber thread.提供一種藉由各彈性構件對於細縫的作用，在穿著時可使各細縫確實地開口的吸收性物品。本發明的吸收性物品，是具有彼此垂直交叉的縱方向及橫方向及厚度方向的吸收性物品，具有：沿著前述橫方向被配置的腹側外裝構件、及沿著前述橫方向被配置的背側外裝構件，前述腹側外裝構件及前述背側外裝構件是分別具備非肌膚側的非肌膚側薄片及肌膚側的肌膚側薄片，對於前述腹側外裝構件及前述背側外裝構件之中的至少一方的構件，在前述非肌膚側薄片或是前述肌膚側薄片，設有在前述橫方向具有規定的長度的複數切縫，前述複數切縫，是在前述橫方向及前述縱方向隔有間隔地設置，前述非肌膚側薄片及前述肌膚側薄片之間，是被複數設置沿著前述橫方向的橡膠線，前述複數橡膠線之中鄰接於前述縱方向的一方的前述橡膠線及另一方的前述橡膠線之間，是設有複數前述切縫之中的某切縫，前述一方的前述橡膠線及前述某切縫之間的距離，是與前述另一方的前述橡膠線及前述某切縫之間的距離相異。
