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hydrophilic substances are electrically polar in character, they possess a dipole. Intermolecular forces associated with this polarity attract (or are attracted by) the polar water molecules. Having sufficient energy, the water molecules can interpose themselves between and eventually surround the hydrophilic substance thus reducing the repulsive intermolecular forces acting between these hydrophilic molecules in their pure state...

Energy and Entropy effects are driving the process...

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