consumption
consumption Lexical Profile
consumption Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The action of using up a resource, energy, or material, or the amount used.
"Installing solar panels significantly reduced the household's electricity consumption."
The act of eating or drinking something, or the amount of food or drink ingested.
"Doctors advise limiting the daily consumption of processed sugars and saturated fats."
The purchase and use of goods and services by consumers in an economy.
"Domestic consumption rose sharply during the holiday shopping season."
An archaic or historical term for pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive wasting disease of the body.
"In nineteenth-century literature, many tragic characters were depicted as suffering from consumption."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French 'consumpcion', from Latin 'consumptio' ('a wasting, using up'), derived from the verb 'consumere' ('to take up completely, devour, waste'). Its historical medical sense referring to tuberculosis arose from the way the disease appeared to waste away or consume the body from within.