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permeant

per·meant

uncommon

adjective

1.

spreading throughout

  • “armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations”
  • “the pervasive odor of garlic”
  • “an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion”

Origin

From permeate + -ant.

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