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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca