Circumambient \sur-kuhm-AM-bee-uhnt\ (adjective) - Surrounding; being on all sides; encompassing.
"Facing reality, then, implies accepting one's essential powerlessness, yielding or adjusting to circumambient forces, taking solace in some local pattern or order that one has created and to which one has become habituated." -- Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism
Circumambient is from Latin circum, "around, round about, on all sides" + ambire, "to go around, to surround," from amb-, "on both sides, around" + ire, "to go."
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