Pervasive vs Proliferate - What's the difference?
pervasive | proliferate |
Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
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As an adjective pervasive
is manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.As a verb proliferate is
to increase in number or spread rapidly.pervasive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.
Synonyms
* (manifested throughout) penetrating, permeating, pervadingproliferate
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Verb
(proliferat)- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}