Meanings
comparative more interpenetrative · superlative most interpenetrative
- mathematicsMutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space)
- Merging together into a continuous whole.
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The Building of the Sangha The Buddha later gave another sermon to his small, select audience, this time on the five so-called skandhas – form, feeling, conception, dispositions and consciousness – the interpenetrative ways in which we perceive the material world and the world presents itself to us (a theme to which I shall return later).
2005, Jo Durden Smith, The Essence of Buddhism
Origin
Translations
Italian incompenetrabile
- incompenetrabilemutually penetrative
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