Definition of Pervasiveness

1. Noun. The quality of filling or spreading throughout. "The pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways"

Generic synonyms: Generality
Derivative terms: Pervasive

Definition of Pervasiveness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pervasiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pervasiveness

pervading
pervadingly
pervaporate
pervaporated
pervaporates
pervaporating
pervaporation
pervasion
pervasions
pervasive
pervasive development disorder
pervasive developmental disorder
pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified
pervasive developmental disorders
pervasively
pervasiveness (current term)
pervasivenesses
perve
perved
pervenous pacemaker
perverse
perversed
perversedly
perversely
perverseness
perversenesses
perverser
perversions
perversities

Literary usage of Pervasiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"A Synoptic View of Animate Nature Must Include the Fact of the pervasiveness of Beauty. § 2. General Characteristics of the ^Esthetic Emotion. § 3. ..."

2. Roman Emperor Worship by Louis Matthews Sweet (1919)
"THE MANIFOLDNESS AND pervasiveness OF THE EMPEROR-CULT We have now come to a point where it will be profitable to attempt a rapid review and summary of ..."

3. Global Environmental Risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson (2001)
"2.8 Comparisons of bazard rankings for the United States: Total consequences versus pervasiveness Consequences - an aggregate indicator created by summing ..."

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