Consumption vs Exhaustion - What's the difference?
consumption | exhaustion |
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
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, chapter=19 (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
(dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
As nouns the difference between consumption and exhaustion
is that consumption is the act of consuming something while exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.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)exhaustion
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}