diffusive

That is spread or dispersed across a wide area or among a large number of people.

Adjective

  1. That is spread or dispersed across a wide area or among a large number of people.
  2. Involving or employing many words; expansive, discursive; (in negative sense) long-winded.
    • I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose existence he proscribed. - 1791, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin,...
  3. That diffuses something; disseminating.
  4. Pertaining to diffusion.

Origin

From post-classical Latin diffusivus (“tending to spread; expansive”) (13th century), from participle stem of Latin diffundere (“diffuse, disperse”).

Forms

more diffusive most diffusive

Derived

biodiffusive diffusive equilibrium diffusively diffusiveness diffusivity electrodiffusive hyperdiffusive nondiffusive pseudodiffusive rotodiffusive subdiffusive superdiffusive undiffusive