Synonyms for consumption
kənˈsʌmp ʃəncon·sump·tion

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
   

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1. Saket Tiku:

   We have surplus oxygen at plants which are far off from places where it is needed right now. Trucking oxygen is a challenge from these plants, we have ramped up the production as oxygen consumption is rising through the roof. But we have limitations and the biggest challenge right now is transporting it to where its urgently needed.

2. Steve Nalley:

   This is a very complicated environment for the entire energy sector, our forecasts for petroleum and other energy prices, consumption, and production could change significantly as we learn more about how responses to the Omicron variant could affect oil demand and the broader economy.

3. Jared Bernstein:

   Ever since I’ve talked to the president about the economy, he’s distinguished between the short-term and the long-term, between consumption and investment, these have always been foundational to his economic thinking.

4. Michael Feroli:

   Unless there is a big upward revision to the disastrous December retail sales figure, the weak end-of-quarter consumption profile provides for very challenging arithmetic for first-quarter consumption growth.

5. Diao Zhouwei:

   Summer gas demand has picked up due to more consumption from gas-fired power plants as temperatures rise, high prices have prompted China to buy spot LNG cargoes from unusual places. The arbitrage window is open between spot prices in Europe and Asia.