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A.Word.A.Day--pervious

adjective:
1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration.
2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, etc.

[From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). Ultimately from Indo-European root wegh (to go, to transport) that is also the source of way, away, wagon, vogue, wiggle, vehicle, voyage, convey, weight, previous, trivial, and vex.]

"There is some sense in this: architecture is more pervious to consensual norms than any other area of human endeavour -- which is why it is much easier to date a building than a page of prose."
Jonathan Meades; From Po-Mo to So-so; New Statesman; Dec 20, 1996.

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