consumption
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English
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- The amount consumed.
- gross national consumption
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99:
- Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
- (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- 1763 June 20 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret. A Comedy, , London: P Vaillant, , published 1764, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
- 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.
- (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Derived terms
- anticonsumption
- autoconsumption
- coconsumption
- conspicuous consumption
- consumptional
- consumption function
- consumption room
- consumption weed
- cyberconsumption
- hyperconsumption
- induced consumption
- metaconsumption
- nonconsumption
- overconsumption
- over-consumption
- photoconsumption
- power consumption
- prosumption
- quick consumption
- reconsumption
- self-consumption
- specific fuel consumption
- underconsumption
- virtual consumption
Related terms
Translations
the act of consuming something
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the amount consumed
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wasting-away of the human body through disease
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pulmonary tuberculosis — see pulmonary tuberculosis
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