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osmotically

Variant of osmosis

noun

  1. the tendency of a solvent to pass through a semipermeable membrane, as the wall of a living cell, into a solution of higher concentration, so as to equalize concentrations on both sides of the membrane
  2. the diffusion of fluids through a membrane or porous partition
  3. an apparently effortless absorption of ideas, feelings, attitudes, etc., as if by biological osmosis

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