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• s  capable of mentally absorbing
  assimilative processes", "assimilative capacity of the human mind
• s  capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
  an assimilative substance

• Even so, Editor Thernstrom notes, "the assimilative powers of this society have been fantastic.
• His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival.
• A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction.

• assimilating
• assimilatory

Quotes

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• LK Advani in Daily News & Analysis
  Zakaria argues that it is this non-doctrinaire character that gives Hinduism its absorptive and assimilative power. I hold that it is this Hindu ethos that accounts for the success of both democracy as well as secularism in India,Advani said.