Associations to the word «Pervasive»

Wiktionary

PERVASIVE, adjective. Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER, noun. A group of five disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication.
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS, noun. Plural of pervasive developmental disorder

Dictionary definition

PERVASIVE, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley