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consumption

noun
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption 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.

  1. derived from cōnsūmptiō
  2. derived from consumpcion
  3. inherited from consumpcioun

Definitions

  1. The act of eating, drinking or using.

    • The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

  2. The amount consumed.

    • gross national consumption

  3. The act of consuming or destroying.

    • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
    • Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The wasting away of the human body through disease.

    2. Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

      • And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.

    3. Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

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Derived

anticonsumption, autoconsumption, coconsumption, conspicuous consumption, consumptional, consumption function, consumption good, consumption room, consumption weed, cyberconsumption, hyperconsumption, induced consumption, metaconsumption, nonconsumption, over-consumption, overconsumption, photoconsumption, power consumption, prosumption, quick consumption, reconsumption, self-consumption, specific fuel consumption, underconsumption, virtual consumption

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at consumption. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at consumption. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at consumption

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA