Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun impregnation

3 senses of impregnation

Sense 1
impregnation -- (material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue")
       => material, stuff -- (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread")

Sense 2
impregnation, saturation -- (the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether")
       => permeation, pervasion, suffusion -- (the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance)

Sense 3
fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation -- (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)
       => creation, conception -- (the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure")