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pervasive

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1. pervasive - Adjective

2. pervasive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. Frank Herbert

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. Lewis Mumford

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. Kevin Bacon

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. John Henry Holland

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Lawrence M. Krauss

The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground rules of the environment. The ground rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serves as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. Marshall McLuhan

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