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PERVASIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pervasiveness mean?
• PERVASIVENESS (noun)
The noun PERVASIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of filling or spreading throughout
Familiarity information: PERVASIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of filling or spreading throughout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways
Hypernyms ("pervasiveness" is a kind of...):
generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)
Derivation:
pervasive (spreading or spread throughout)
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