[ɒzˈməʊsɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one

- the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.
(e.g: by some strange political osmosis, private reputations became public)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: Latinized form of earlier osmose, from Greek ōsmos ‘a push’