• (British) IPA: /ˈpɜː.vi.əs/

pervious

1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.

   a pervious soil

   • 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame:

     [Doors] […] pervious to winds, and open every way.

2. Accepting of new ideas.
3. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.

   • God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.

4. (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
5. (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

• impervious

• Russian: проница́емый