permeation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
permeation
    n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a
         substance [syn: {permeation}, {pervasion}, {suffusion}]
    2: mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other [syn:
       {interpenetration}, {permeation}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Permeation \Per`me*a"tion\, n.
   The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading
   throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
   [1913 Webster]

         Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual
         permeation and inexistence.              --Bp. Hall.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "permeation":
      brewing, decoction, diffusion, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking,
      imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion,
      injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, leaching,
      lixiviation, maceration, marination, overrunning, overspreading,
      overswarming, penetration, percolation, pervasion, pulping,
      saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse,
      sousing, steeping, suffusion, transfusion

    

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