consumptions
Saykuhn-SUMP-shuhnz/kənˈsʌmp.ʃənz/
- 1Plural of consumption. Rarely used; the uncountable singular is usual even when comparing several amounts.
Note
A plural for a noun that usually refuses one. Every meaning of consumption is ordinarily uncountable, so the plural appears mainly when separate amounts are set side by side: the consumptions of different households, fuels or machines, which draws on the 'amount consumed' meaning. For the act of eating or using, or for the dated name of the wasting disease, the singular stays natural: rising consumption, not rising consumptions.
consumptions is a form of consumption
consumption, noun: The act of eating, drinking, or using something. Full entry
- Forms
- consumptionconsumptions plural
- Spelling
- consumption → consumptions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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