consuming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of consume

comparative more consuming · superlative most consuming

1. Holding one's attention or interest.

   a consuming passion

plural consumings

1. consumption; the process by which something is consumed

   […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.

   1985, Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, page 37