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Synonyms for consumptionkənˈsʌmp ʃəncon·sump·tion

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 6 votes

1. consumption

   Synonyms:decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease

   Antonyms:growth, development, enlargement, augmentation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.2 / 7 votes

1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

   Synonyms:phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, aspiration, economic consumption, ingestion, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague

2. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plaguenoun

   involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

   Synonyms:phthisis, use, uptake, usance, white plague, expenditure, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, drug addiction, using up, intake, ingestion, economic consumption, use of goods and services

3. consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and servicesnoun

   (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

   "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

   Synonyms:phthisis, usage, use, custom, habit, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, ingestion, exercise, role, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, utilization, employment, economic consumption, manipulation, intake, usance, enjoyment, function, purpose, white plague, utilisation

4. consumption, using up, expenditurenoun

   the act of consuming something

   Synonyms:spending, phthisis, use, expenditure, outgo, uptake, ingestion, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, economic consumption, expending, intake, outlay, usance, white plague, use of goods and services

Matched Categories

1. • Demand
   • Depletion
   • Economics
   • Tuberculosis

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:extinction, destruction, waste, expenditure

2. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, decline, tabes, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:phthisis, consuming

2. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:tuberculosis

   Associated words:tubercular, tubercle, tuberculin, hectic, consumptive, pectoral

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1. List of paraphrases for "consumption":

   consumer, consuming, exertion, use, consumo, consommation, intake, drinking, eating, usage, consumerism, spending, consume, depreciation, abuse, pull, consumed, uptake

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. consumption

   Synonyms:Tuberculosis

How to pronounce consumption?

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Words popularity by usage frequency

ranking	word
#61	use
#853	function
#1024	employment
#1093	role
#1185	consumer
#1212	custom
#1258	purpose
#1980	waste
#2042	exercise
#2225	abuse
#3031	usage
#3492	eating
#3745	spending
#3810	pull
#3885	consumption
#3958	drinking
#4933	decrease
#5615	decline
#6117	expenditure
#7011	inspiration
#7209	intake
#8609	utilization
#10038	consuming
#10134	decay
#10222	habit
#10401	manipulation
#11901	consumed
#11906	depreciation
#11912	enjoyment
#12744	inlet
#13640	consume
#15581	uptake
#18279	inhalation
#19833	utilisation
#23787	ingestion
#24319	aspiration
#27445	outlay
#38020	exertion
#38729	consumerism
#51614	decrement
#53539	lessening
#76403	consumo
#80360	expending
#113290	consommation
#186869	outgo
#310552	phthisis

How to use consumption in a sentence?

1. Fang Xinghai:

   A depreciation is not in the interests of China's rebalancing; a too deep currency fall would not be good for consumption.

2. David Kao:

   Coffee and caffeine are often considered by the general population to be' bad' for the heart because people associate them with palpitations, high blood pressure, etc. The consistent relationship between increasing caffeine consumption and decreasing heart failure risk turns that assumption on its head.

3. John Urbanchuk:

   I was appalled when I looked at the numbers, fluid milk consumption per capita is down by 9.7 percent in the last five years, ice cream consumption is down 3.3 percent. People are just not consuming milk, and its putting the dairy industry in a bad place.

4. Alan Ruskin:

   The most sensitive comments will revolve around whether Powell is willing to reaffirm a view that the easing cycle is a 'mid-cycle adjustment' or align more closely to market thinking, if he sticks to the old language as is most likely, it would affirm that he is still confident that the strength of consumption, in combination with modest Fed easing, will be sufficient to keep the recovery broadly on track.

5. Jon Vernick:

   This is an age group that includes those that for the first time are away from home, mixed with alcoholic consumption, mixed with depression, if you add a firearm to that mix, it is very likely that a suicide attempt is fatal.

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Translations for consumption

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• استهلاكArabic
• консумация, изразходване, консумиранеBulgarian
• consumCatalan, Valencian
• spotřeba, zničeníCzech
• Verbrauch, Verbrauchswert, Verzehr, KonsumGerman
• φθίση, κατανάλωσηGreek
• consumoSpanish
• مصرفPersian
• kulutus, kuluttaminen, riutuminenFinnish
• consommation, consumer, consommerFrench
• caitheamhScottish Gaelic
• צריכהHebrew
• fogyasztásHungarian
• consumoInterlingua
• konsumsiIndonesian
• deperimento, consunzione, consumoItalian
• הצריכהHebrew
• 消費Japanese
• បម្រើបម្រាស់Khmer
• 소비, 消費Korean
• wegteren, consumptie, verbruikDutch
• consumoPortuguese
• потребление, истощение, расходRussian
• konsumtionSwedish
• వినియోగంTelugu

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