permeant adj 1: spreading or spread 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" [syn: {permeant}, {permeating}, {permeative}, {pervasive}]
Permeant \Per"me*ant\, a. [L. permeans, p. pr.] Passing through; permeating. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]