consumption
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/ noun
Forms consumptions
- noun The act of eating, drinking or using. “The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.”
- noun The amount consumed. “gross national consumption”
- noun The act of consuming or destroying. “The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.”
- noun (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- noun (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- noun (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Synonyms
ingestion intake uptake pulmonary tuberculosis phthisis wasting disease white plague economic consumption usance use use of goods and services using up expenditure
Etymology
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
- noun The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Etymology [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “consumption”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details