environing
61wrapping — Synonyms and related words: ambient, bandage, bandaging, binder, binding, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, cloaking, clouding, coating …
62humanism — A very wide ranging set of philosophies that have at their core the belief that human interests and dignity should be of primary importance. Its roots are usually traced to ancient Greece, but seeds are also observed elsewhere: in the Renaissance …
63environ — (v.) late 14c. (implied in environing), to surround, from O.Fr. environer to surround, enclose, encircle, from environ round about, from en in (see EN (Cf. en ) (1)) + viron circle, circuit, from virer to turn (see VEER …
64circumjacent — a. Surrounding, encompassing, encircling, ambient, circumambient, environing, enfolding, enclosing, lying around …
65atmosphere — 1 *air, ether, ozone 2 Atmosphere, feeling, feel, aura denote an intangible and usually unanalyzable quality or aggregate of qualities which gives something an individual and distinctly recognizable character. Atmosphere is used chiefly in… …
66permeate — permeate, pervade, penetrate, impenetrate, interpenetrate, impregnate, saturate can all mean to pass or cause to pass through every part of a thing. Permeate may be used in reference to either a material or an immaterial thing and implies… …
67surround — surround, *environ, encircle, circle, encompass, compass, hem, gird, girdle, ring can mean to close in or as if in a ring about something. Surround is a general term without specific connotations; it implies enclosure as if by a circle or a ring… …
68ambient — adj 1. surrounding, encompassing, encircling, circumambient; enclosing, enfolding, enveloping, environing; embracing, embosoming. 2. circulating, moving, swirling, whirling …
69circumjacent — adj surrounding, circumscribing, circumscriptive, encircling, lying around, outlying, out linear, peripheral, perimetric, circumferential; ambient, circumambient, encompassing, enveloping, enclosing, environing, circumfluent; enfolding, girding,… …
70peripheral — adj 1. peripheric, perimetric, circumferential, outlinear, outlying, outer, on the edge, on the rim, marginal; surrounding, circumjacent, circumscribing, circumspective, encircling; ambient, circumambient, environing, circumfluent. 2. superficial …
