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• n  the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance

• In the Luxembourg Gardens, 1879, is an uncanny performance for a 23-year-old, with its suffusion of mauve twilight, its seamless recession of tones and the run of staccato red .
• They will "immediately notice the sudden contortion of the victim's features, the suffusion of blood to his head, the clasping and unclasping of his hands, the spasmodic twitchings .
• The details and the subject matter absorb the eye only temporarily; in the end, the painting becomes a balance of space and a suffusion of colors.

• permeation
• pervasion