Antonyms for consumption
kənˈsʌmp ʃəncon·sump·tion

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

1. consumption

   Antonyms:
   growth, development, enlargement, augmentation

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

Matched Categories

1. • Demand
   • Depletion
   • Economics
   • Tuberculosis

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

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

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

1. consumption

   Synonyms:
   Tuberculosis
   

How to use consumption in a sentence?

1. Jerome Powell:

   You see continuing shifts in consumption, you see some sales going down, but overall spending is really strong, the consumer is in really good shape financially.

2. Raoul Vaneigem:

   Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

3. Katherine Zeratsky:

   A 4-ounce cup of juice is considered a serving of fruit, i think most consumers of juice are generally drinking more than 4 ounces. Then, the next question is, within the greater quantity, how does that balance within one's diet? And then probably the next question is, is that fruit juice consumption offsetting the intake of other nutritious food?

4. Takeshi Minami:

   This is a pretty positive figure and shows the recovery is picking up pace, non-manufacturers are boosting spending on expectations that private consumption will recover, so this should serve as a key driver of growth.

5. Nora Volkow:

   This has been an incredibly uncertain and stressful time for many people and we are seeing an increase in drug consumption, difficulty in accessing life-saving treatments for substance use disorders, and a tragic rise in overdose deaths.

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