interpenetration
Passing through each other
Interpenetration is the act or state of things passing into and through each other, occupying the same space or becoming mutually intertwined.
The term appears in philosophy, theology, and physics to describe how distinct entities can coexist within one another without losing their separate identities: the interpenetration of mind and body, the interpenetration of urban and rural life.
In more concrete uses, it describes physical merging: the interpenetration of roots from neighboring trees.
Process of spreading throughout
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- osmosisSolvent crossing semipermeable barrier
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
- saturationState of complete permeation
seepage · absorption · suffusion · soaking · imbuing · transfusion · percolation · membrane
Combine into unity
- blendCombine into mixture
- fuseProtective melting wire
- coalesceUnite into one mass
- amalgamateMerge distinct entities
meld · commingle · intermix · synthesize · conflate · homogenize · emulsify · alloy
Absence of fundamental separation
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- onenessState of being unified
- holismWholes trump components
monism · immanence · transcendence · coalescence · indivisibility · inextricability · Whitehead · Hegel
Weave elements together
- intertwineTwist together mutually
- meshInterlocking open weave
- interlockJoin by overlapping
- entwineWind around each other
weave · braid · entangle · interlinking · crisscross · lattice · knit · splice
permeation
Process of spreading throughout
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- osmosisSolvent crossing semipermeable barrier
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
saturation · seepage · absorption · suffusion · soaking · imbuing · transfusion · percolation · membrane · porous
merge
Combine into unity
amalgamate · meld · commingle · intermix · synthesize · conflate · homogenize · emulsify · alloy · composite
nonduality
Absence of fundamental separation
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- onenessState of being unified
holism · monism · immanence · transcendence · coalescence · indivisibility · inextricability · Whitehead · Hegel · dialectic
interlace
Weave elements together
- intertwineTwist together mutually
- meshInterlocking open weave
- interlockJoin by overlapping
entwine · weave · braid · entangle · interlinking · crisscross · lattice · knit · splice · dovetail
interpenetrationseparation
State of being apart
isolation · segregation · impermeability · compartmentalization · disjunction
interpenetrationisolation
Complete separation from others
mutual exclusion · insularity · disconnection · compartmentalization · autonomy