| permeant | (adj) spreading or spread throughout, Syn. permeative, permeating, pervasive, Example: armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations; the pervasive odor of garlic; an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion |
| Permeant | a. [ L. permeans, p. pr. ] Passing through; permeating. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ] |