PERVASION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pervasion mean? 

• PERVASION (noun)
  The noun PERVASION has 1 sense:

1. the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance

  Familiarity information: PERVASION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERVASION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of permeating or infusing something with a substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

permeation; pervasion; suffusion

Hypernyms ("pervasion" is a kind of...):

diffusion ((physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pervasion"):

ammonification (impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia)

carbonation (saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water))

impregnation; saturation (the process of totally saturating something with a substance)

Derivation:

pervade (spread or diffuse through)