subsumption

1. 1.

   the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)

   Synonymsminor premiseminor premiss

   Broaderpremise

   Part ofsyllogism

   Partsminor termmiddle term
2. 2.

   incorporating something under a more general category

   Broaderclassification

Other forms of subsumption

plural

subsumptions·

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 subsumption

What does subsumption mean?

subsumption means "the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subsumption?

subsumption has 4 syllables: sub-sump-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for subsumption?

Close synonyms include minor premise, minor premiss. 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 subsumption a common word?

subsumption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.