MEANING
The widespread presence or influence of something throughout a system, group, or area.
Use it for
describing a pattern appearing across many parts of a system; distinguishing widespread influence from one isolated instance; evaluating how broadly a practice is embeddedDescribes spread throughout a domain, rather than sheer size or intensity at a single point. Academic functions: Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- the pervasiveness of inequality
- the pervasiveness of a practice
- pervasiveness across institutions
On the page
The chapter examines the pervasiveness of informal rules across public institutions.
Frequent examples from one archive cannot by themselves establish the pervasiveness of the practice nationwide.
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Word forms
- Base
- pervasiveness
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Pervasiveness of + feature, or pervasiveness across/within + domain. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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