consumption
Plural: consumptions
Noun
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
- the act of consuming something
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Examples
- gross national consumption
- The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
economic consumption, expenditure, ingestion, intake, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, uptake, usance, use, use of goods and services, using up, wasting disease, white plague
Scrabble Score: 17
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