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consumption
Overview of noun consumption
The noun consumption has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake -- (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))
2. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague -- (involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body)
3. consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services -- ((economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily")
4. consumption, using up, expenditure -- (the act of consuming something)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun consumption
4 senses of consumption
Sense 1
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
=> tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
=> infectious disease
=> communicable disease
=> disease
=> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
=> ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
=> pathological state
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
=> demand
=> economic process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
consumption, using up, expenditure
=> depletion
=> decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
=> change of magnitude
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun consumption
3 of 4 senses of consumption
Sense 1
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> eating, feeding
=> swallow, drink, deglutition
=> sucking, suck, suction
=> drinking, imbibing, imbibition
Sense 3
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
=> conspicuous consumption
Sense 4
consumption, using up, expenditure
=> burnup
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun consumption
4 senses of consumption
Sense 1
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
Sense 2
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
=> tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
Sense 3
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
=> demand
Sense 4
consumption, using up, expenditure
=> depletion
Antonyms of noun consumption
Member Holonyms of noun consumption
Substance Holonyms of noun consumption
Part Holonyms of noun consumption
Member Meronyms of noun consumption
Substance Meronyms of noun consumption
Part Meronyms of noun consumption
Meronyms of noun consumption
Holonyms of noun consumption
Attributes of noun consumption
Derived Forms of noun consumption
1 of 4 senses of consumption
Sense 1
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
RELATED TO>(verb) consume#2
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Domain of noun consumption
1 of 4 senses of consumption
Sense 3
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
TOPIC>(noun) economics#1, economic science#1, political economy#1
Domain Terms of noun consumption
Familiarity of noun consumption
consumption used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun consumption
4 senses of consumption
Sense 1
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> control
=> breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
=> respiration
=> breath
=> consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> insemination
=> sleeping
=> reaction, response
=> crying, weeping, tears
=> ablactation
=> anastalsis
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> expectoration
=> festering, suppuration, maturation
=> healing
=> hypostasis
=> lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering
=> lactation
=> opsonization, opsonisation
=> overactivity
=> peristalsis, vermiculation
=> perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis
=> phagocytosis
=> pinocytosis
=> placentation
=> psilosis
=> tanning
=> transpiration
Sense 2
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
> tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
=> Pott's disease
=> miliary tuberculosis
=> pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
=> scrofula, struma, king's evil
=> lupus vulgaris
Sense 3
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
> demand
=> consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
Sense 4
consumption, using up, expenditure
> depletion
=> consumption, using up, expenditure
=> exhaustion
=> drain
Meronyms of noun consumption
4 senses of consumption
Sense 2
pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
=> tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
=> infectious disease
=> communicable disease
=> disease
HAS PART: symptom
HAS PART: sign
HAS PART: syndrome
Holonyms of noun consumption
Grep of noun consumption
conspicuous consumption
consumption
consumption weed
economic consumption
fuel consumption rate
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