osmosis
noun
[ ɒzˈməʊsɪs ]
• a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
• the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.
• "by some strange political osmosis, private reputations became public"
Origin:
mid 19th century: Latinized form of earlier osmose, from Greek ōsmos ‘a push’.
