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to osmose

to osmose

9.0
Slowly and without noticing, people get ideas or habits from others
  • verb
  • /ˈɑːzmoʊz/
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  • Over the years, he picked up many valuable skills through osmosis while working with experienced colleagues.

Examples

  • Yeah, I think that knowledge has just come almost through osmosis, just through wading through it for so long.

  • So if anything, it's just like through osmosis and seeing what he does, I get to absorb that and helps me a lot.

  • I felt things through osmosis with my father.

  • But I learned through osmosis with my father.

  • Just an amazing part of music history, you know, to be able to just learn from that through osmosis was amazing.

  • I just hear that through osmosis of of being around the field for a long time.

  • I kind of, it takes me an hour to come round and I, I quite like to take in the news by osmosis in a way, you know, just like that.

  • Nobody's going to come in just to come in, but through osmosis, you might be able to.

  • And through osmosis, let me tell you how life actually works when you're nice to Karen and you did something right.

  • Through some process of osmosis, they're going to absorb the laws of nature that cause buildings to have different kinds of effects.

Synonyms

to absorb
vsto osmose
217 3.0

To take in things such as liquid, light, or information

is a passive, slow intake of habits or attitudes from others
to sink in
vsto osmose
  • Informal
59 4.1

To slowly understand and accept something

is taken in gradually and unconsciously from others
to assimilate
vsto osmose
22 5.5

Take in and understand new ideas or information

happens without effort and over time rather than by deliberate study
to soak up
vsto osmose
  • Informal
16 3.9

To take in and enjoy the atmosphere or information

in contrast, happens quietly and unconsciously over time
to imbibe
vsto osmose
9 7.4

Drink alcohol or absorb ideas and knowledge

is specifically about slow, unconscious uptake from social surroundings
to soak up knowledge
vsto osmose
  • Informal
1 4.0

To take in new information quickly and easily

occurs without eagerness, happening subtly and without conscious choice
to sop up
vsto osmose
3.7

To take in liquid or things like information and feelings

refers instead to gradual, unconscious absorption of attitudes from others

How Much

to internalize
  • US
37 6.7
to osmose
9.0
to pick up
∞ 2.6
to notice
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

osmose infinitive
osmosed past
osmosed past participle
osmosing present participle
osmoses third person singular

Etymology

Osmose comes from the Greek root osmos meaning 'push' or 'impulse', the same root as osmosis; a helpful image is ideas being 'pushed' into you little by little. So, to osmose in a social sense is to absorb habits or attitudes slowly and without noticing.