pervasive
/pəˈveɪsɪv
/adjective
(Especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people: ageism is pervasive and entrenched in our society...
- He exercised a pervasive influence on European drama by challenging the conventions of naturalism.
- Nevertheless, their influence is pervasive within the history of science.
- They include globalisation, the spread of the Internet and the pervasive power of money.
Synonyms
prevalent, penetrating, pervading, permeating, extensive, ubiquitous, omnipresent, present everywhere, rife, widespread, general, common, universal, pandemic, epidemic, endemic, inescapable, insidious;
immanent
rare permeative, suffusive, permeant
Derivatives
pervasively
/ adverb ...- And such a label, most of the time politically motivated, tends to be one that sticks permanently and is pervasively influential and powerfully contaminating.
- However, it's been used so pervasively by public figures and media pundits that I'm not sure anyone has a clear claim to this anymore.
- Universities are deploying Linux - pervasively and aggressively.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from Latin pervas- 'passed through' (from the verb pervadere) + -ive.