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Interpenetration

noun
1.
The action of penetrating between or among.
2.
Mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other.  Synonym: permeation.





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"Interpenetration" Quotes from Famous Books



... to happen some day, maybe in fifty years, after he was out of the office. By then enough of the worlds should have reached maturity to offer some hope of peaceful interpenetration. But now— ...
— Victory • Lester del Rey
... discontinuity—although less removed, perhaps, from the real continuity of life. The truth is that this continuity cannot be thought by the intellect while it follows its natural movement. It implies at once the multiplicity of elements and the interpenetration of all by all, two conditions that can hardly be reconciled in the field in which our industry, and consequently our ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson
... earnestly day after day about this book—to be taught how to say the right thing in the right way—and I assure you I did not get tired of my work, but laboured as earnestly at the end as I did at the beginning. The rest of your criticism, especially about the interpenetration of doctrine and action, is most true, and shall be ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... division of the spiritual body is the fine film of subtle matter that separates off the individual Spirit as a Being, and yet permits the interpenetration of all by all, and is thus the expression of the fundamental unity. In the day when the Son Himself shall "be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all,"[247] this film will be transcended, but for ...
— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant


Words linked to "Interpenetration" :   incursion, interpenetrate, permeation, penetration


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