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absumption

absumption noun: destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.

Noun

absumption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Destruction 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 of absumption

From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

Words that rhyme with absumption

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Questions about absumption

What does absumption mean?
Absumption means destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
What part of speech is absumption?
Absumption is a noun.

Words near absumption in the dictionary

  1. abstrusively
  2. absume
  3. absumed
  4. absumes
  5. absuming
  6. absumption
  7. absurd
  8. absurda
  9. absurder
  10. absurdest
  11. absurdification

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