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pervious

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per·vi·ous  (pûrv-s)
adj.
1. Open to passage or entrance; permeable.
2. Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.

[From Latin pervius : per-, through; see per- + via, way; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

pervi·ous·ly adv.
pervi·ous·ness n.

pervious
Adjective
1. able to be penetrated; permeable: the thin walls were pervious to the slightest sound
2. receptive to new ideas; open-minded [Latin per- through + via a way]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pervious - admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat"
permeable - allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through; "permeable membranes"; "rock that is permeable by water"
imperviable, impervious - not admitting of passage or capable of being affected; "a material impervious to water"; "someone impervious to argument"


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The walls were even more pervious to a driving rain.
When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
For though nothing is impassable to the soul, but all things are pervious to it and like highways, yet this is only whilst the soul does not see them.
 
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