consumption

Other forms of consumption

plural

consumptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about consumption

What does consumption mean?

consumption means "the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consumption?

consumption has 3 syllables: con-sump-tion. The stress falls on "sump". In IPA it is /kənˈsʌmpʃən/.

What is another word for consumption?

Close synonyms include ingestion, intake, uptake, pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is consumption a common word?

consumption is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with consumption?

1 word rhymes with consumption. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.