absumption

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noun

Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.

OriginLatin absumptionem →
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Meanings

nounabsumption (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableDestruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.

    Chriſtians abhorred this way of obſequies, and though they ſtickt not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, deteſted that mode after death; affecting rather a depoſiture than abſumption, […]

    1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 1

Origin

  1. Latinabsumptionem
  2. Englishabsumption

From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with absumption

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APA

absumption. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absumption

MLA

“absumption.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absumption. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “absumption,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absumption.

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