consumption

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The act of eating, drinking or using.
2. (uncountable, usually) The amount consumed.
3. (uncountable, usually) The act of consuming or destroying.
4. (uncountable, usually) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
5. (dated, uncountable, usually) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
6. (dated, euphemistic, uncountable, usually) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Synonyms

tuberculosis

expenditure

use

phthisis

pulmonary tuberculosis

intake

using up

white plague

ingestion

exhaustion

disbursement

TB

expenses

uptake

usance

wastage

expense

wasting disease

consume

use of goods and services

spending

fee

economic consumption

waste

expend

charge

usage

consumerism

subduction

tabes

utilisation

wear

wear and tear

wearing

tabefaction

costs

economics

malnutrition

rickets

consumptive cough

abrasion

white scourge

absorption

atrophy

burnup

conspicuous

consuming

co-operative store

cost

depletion

Translations

consommation

consumo

Verbrauch

consumo

consumo

Konsum

consum

κατανάλωση

phthisis

verbruik

consumptie

Verzehr

tering

tuberculose

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: consumpcioun

In summary

From Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.