MEANING
1. The process or condition of something entering and spreading thoroughly through something else.
2. The process of different things entering or spreading through one another.
3. An effect in painting where two or more forms cross and share shapes in common.
Use it for
describing thorough diffusion through a material or system; showing how an influence reaches many parts of a setting; distinguishing pervasive entry from surface contactDistinguishes thorough diffusion, mutual entry or influence, and a particular effect of overlapping visual forms. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Theory / Conceptual Language, Synthesis.
Words that belong together
- interpenetration of materials
- thorough interpenetration
- interpenetration throughout a structure
On the page
The materials discussion distinguishes surface contact from interpenetration throughout the surrounding substance.
The historical account examines the interpenetration of administrative practices into everyday local activity.
The account traces the interpenetration of commercial and political institutions rather than treating them as isolated systems.
The critic examines the interpenetration of memory and present experience in the narrative.
The critic identifies interpenetration where the painted forms cross and share shapes rather than merely touch.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- interpenetration
Usage notes
Usually uncountable: interpenetration of or between things. Plural interpenetrations can denote separate instances. No comparison or verb inflection. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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