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permeation

permeation

1 7.0
One thing slowly moves into and through another thing
  • noun
  • /ˌpɜrmiˈeɪʃən/
translation icon : permeación
  • The permeation of ideas across cultures often leads to rich exchanges and the development of new perspectives.
  • market permeation

Examples

  • From another perspective, a collection of prominent economists developed a number of compelling arguments about the narrow-minded biases and blind spots of neoclassical economics itself: from its permeation with extreme ideology to its self-deceptive distortion of environmental issues and poverty.

    Academic text (2008)
  • We are dealing, so to speak, with the permeation of the intellectual by the irrational and of the unconscious by the conscious.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Second, entrepreneurship education represents the opportunity to further study the impacts of market permeation and academic capitalism on community colleges.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The permeation of boundaries between public and private enacted by the hotel is visible in most architectural spaces that James visits in America.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Rather than taking for granted the surface meaning of text and other communication, they look for underlying contextual influences and ideological permeation.

    Academic text (2005)
  • This substance reduces cracking, surface bleed water, and water permeation while increasing concrete compressive strengths and erosion resistance.

    Academic text (1998)
  • ii) Monopolies operating in the realm of control of world financial flows: the increasing permeation of major financial institutions that operate on the world financial market has given these monopolies an efficacy without precedent.

    Academic text (1993)
  • In the context of academic capitalism, entrepreneurship education provides a somewhat counterintuitive case of market permeation working to counteract, rather than promote and sustain, the cooling-out tendencies of the community college.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The permeation of the dye throughout the fabric created a vibrant color that transformed the entire piece.

  • Scientists are studying the permeation of oxygen through the membrane to improve storage methods for fruits.

Synonyms

dispersion
vspermeation
5 6.5

The spreading of people or things across a wide area

is gradual penetration into material rather than wide scattering of elements
diffusion
vspermeation
5 5.8

Spreading ideas or customs to many places

is about passing slowly through a material rather than broad outward distribution
infiltration
vspermeation
  • Specialized
4 6.8

Slow movement of water into and through soil or rock

is broader, covering passage of many things not only liquids through pores
pervasion
vspermeation
1 8.3

The spread of something through a place until it is present everywhere

is a gradual passing through that stresses slow movement rather than mere presence
suffusion
vspermeation
1 9.2

A slow spread of color, light, or feeling through something

is about passing through material physically rather than just a gentle surface spread
percolation
vspermeation
  • Specialized
6.4

Liquid slowly passing through soil or a filter

is about wider spreading or passing beyond just filtered flow through pores

Antonyms

64 4.2

A situation when someone is not allowed to join or take part in a group

How Thorough

saturation
4 4.7
permeation
1 7.0
penetration
22 4.8
seepage
7 5.7

Surface Forms

permeation singular
permeations plural

Morphology

permeation = permeate (transparent) = permeate + ion

The noun 'permeation' is transparently derived from the verb 'permeate' by adding the suffix '-ion', indicating the process or result of the action.

Etymology

Permeation comes from the Latin parts per- meaning 'through' and meare meaning 'to go', so it originally meant 'going through'; think of water slowly moving through a sponge, which is exactly what permeation is — something passing or spreading through another thing.