English Explanatory Dictionary

consumption

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of eating, drinking or using.
  2. The amount consumed.
  3. The act of consuming or destroying.
  4. The wasting away of the human body through disease.
  5. Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
  6. Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Pronunciation

/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/ en-us-consumption.ogg

Word forms

consumption consumptions

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.

Related words

consumer

Derived words

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
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