<p>Is “pervade” the correct word to use in something like this??:</p>
<p>…pervades the minds…</p>
<p>I know what it means, but is it commonly used to mean filling one’s mind?</p>
<p>Need more words - the whole sentence. Pervade implies a vaporous sort of filling, a seeping feeling.</p>
<p>Pervade also implies that something is found everywhere in a given system - sort of diffusing throughout the entire thing, in your example the entire mind or all of the minds. </p>
<p>It’s the verb form of pervasive.</p>