Consumption vs Backgain - What's the difference?
consumption | backgain |
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
Receding; going back.
Not thriving in health or in worldly concerns.
As nouns the difference between consumption and backgain
is that consumption is the act of consuming something while backgain is a relapse.As an adjective backgain is
receding; going back.consumption
English
Noun
(-)- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption
Derived terms
* autoconsumption, self-consumption. * conspicuous consumption.See also
(Wikipedia)backgain
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of .Alternative forms
* backgaun, back-gang, back-gannin * backgane (Scotland)Etymology 2
Alteration of .Alternative forms
* back-ga'en, back-gaenAdjective
(en adjective)- a backgain family