🇬🇧 Osmosis meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card
noun
Osmosis is when ideas, knowledge, or habits quietly move from one person to another over time, almost like magic. You don’t sit down and study it on purpose; you just start picking it up because you are around someone who does or says it a lot. For example, if your brother loves science and talks about planets every day, you might start knowing planet facts just by listening. That slow, gentle spreading of ideas from one person to another is called osmosis.
After months of listening to cooking shows, osmosis has caused me to call burnt toast “extra-crispy artisanal bread.”
Through bedtime-story osmosis, my brain accidentally memorized an entire book, but I still can’t remember where I put my shoes.
There was such strong osmosis of gossip on the playground that by recess’s end, even the swings knew who liked whom.
The teacher’s love of terrible dad jokes spread by osmosis, and now the whole class groans in perfect harmony.
By osmosis from my grandma, I suddenly know twenty different ways to complain about the weather like a professional.
Every evening the child sat at the kitchen table and watched her mother cook. By osmosis she picked up the spoon and the soft stir; osmosis taught her the quiet timing, osmosis shaped her small hands, osmosis filled the room with calm. And osmosis crept into her laugh. Tonight she smiled, stirred alone, and tasted the first proud bite.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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