prosumption

P3R1O1S1U1M3P3T1I1O1N1

noun

The contribution to product development by end users.

OriginEnglish consumption ← Middle English consumpcioun ← Old French consumpcion →
Scrabble 17
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounprosumption (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe contribution to product development by end users.

    In fact they suggest that the rise of prosumption signals a new stage of capitalism in which it no longer makes sense to speak of workers as exploited.

    2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space
    2 more examples

    The chapter covers the review of approaches that have been developed by prosumption specialists to improve the integration between the production for use and production for sale.

    2013, Małgorzata Pańkowska, Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development, page XX

    Although they did not have the concept until recently, sociologists, social theorists, and other students of society and the media have always focused, albeit unknowingly, on prosumption.

    2019, Frederick F. Wherry, Ian Woodward, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, page 77

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  5. Proto-Italic*pro-
  6. Latinprō-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
  9. Proto-Italic*doukō
  10. Latindūcō
  11. Latinprōdūcō
  12. Latinprōductiō
  13. Old Frenchproduction
  14. Middle Englishproduccioun
  15. Englishproduction
  16. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  17. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  18. Proto-Italic*kom
  19. Proto-Italic*kom-
  20. Latincon-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  22. Proto-Italic*supo
  23. Latinsub
  24. Latinsub-
  25. Proto-Indo-European*h₁em-
  26. Proto-Indo-European*h₁émeti
  27. Proto-Italic*emō
  28. Latinemō
  29. Latinsūmō
  30. Latincōnsūmō
  31. Latincōnsūmptiō
  32. Old Frenchconsumpcion
  33. Middle Englishconsumpcioun
  34. Englishconsumption
  35. Englishprosumption

Blend of production + consumption.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with prosumption

consumptionassumptionpresumptionresumptionsumptionsubsumptiongumptionoverconsumptionabsumptionanticonsumptionautoconsumptioncoconsumptioncyberconsumptionhyperconsumptionmetaconsumptionmisassumptionnonassumptionnonconsumptionnonresumptionphotoconsumptionpreassumptionreassumptionreconsumptionrumgumption
All rhymes →

Anagrams

opportunism
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

Source: prosumption on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.