consumingness

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noun

The quality or characteristic of being consuming.

OriginEnglish consuming ← Middle English consumen ← Old French consumer →
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Meanings

nounconsumingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality or characteristic of being consuming.

    The power of that agony to transfix a victim is what Luban eloquently delineates. […] Kreimer too has given vivid expression to the consumingness of severe pain.

    2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, page 166

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  7. Proto-Italic*supo
  8. Latinsub
  9. Latinsub-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₁em-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₁émeti
  12. Proto-Italic*emō
  13. Latinemō
  14. Latinsūmō
  15. Latincōnsūmō
  16. Old Frenchconsumer
  17. Middle Englishconsumen
  18. Englishconsuming
  19. Englishconsumingness

From consuming + -ness.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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