interpenetrative

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ penetrative.

Adjective

interpenetrative (comparative more interpenetrative, superlative most interpenetrative)

1. (mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space)
2. Merging together into a continuous whole.
   • 2005, Jo Durden Smith, The Essence of Buddhism:

     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).

Translations

mutually penetrative

• Italian: incompenetrabile