inconsumable

Adjective

inconsumable (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent by normal use.
   • WHEN the identical loan is to be returned, as a book, a horse, a harpsichord, it is called inconsumable; in opposition to corn, wine, money, and those things which perish1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
   • All things that do not lose their substance by use are classified as inconsumable.1912, Andrew Stephenson, A History of Roman Law
2. Incapable of being consumed by any destructive or neutralizing force or act; indestructable; persistent.
   • The only thing inconsumable is the surface of the earth.1770, Sir James Steuart, An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political Oeconomy, page 360
   • ever still Burning, yet ever inconsumable:1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion
3. That one cannot consume; unusable.
   • We must think of that which is beyond what we can think, beyond what thinking can consume and beyond what is the inconsumable for thinking.2004, T. Morton, Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite, page 178
   • This possibility, in turn—one through which all impressions are left virulent and amorphous—would mark an extreme breaking point whereby knowledge itself is cast toward the inconsumable (i.e., an irreconcilable collapse of consciousness).2010, J. Mohaghegh, New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East