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Adjective: pervasive  pu(r)'vey-siv
  1. Spreading or spread throughout
    "the pervasive odour of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"
    - permeant, permeating, permeative

See also: distributive, pervade, pervasively, pervasiveness

Encyclopedia: Pervasive