Consumption vs Consummate - What's the difference?
consumption | consummate |
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
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highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
As a noun consumption
is the act of consuming something.As an adjective consummate is
complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a verb consummate is
to bring (a task, project, goal etc) to completion; to accomplish.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)consummate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
