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subsumption

[ suhb-suhmp-shuhn ]

noun

  1. an act of subsuming.
  2. the state of being subsumed.
  3. something that is subsumed.
  4. a proposition subsumed under another.


subsumption

/ səbˈsʌmpʃən /

noun

  1. the act of subsuming or the state of being subsumed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • subˈsumptive, adjective
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Other Words From

  • sub·sumptive adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of subsumption1

1630–40; < Medieval Latin subsūmptiōn- (stem of subsūmptiō ) a subjoining, equivalent to subsūmpt ( us ) (past participle of subsūmere to subsume + Latin -iōn- -ion
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Example Sentences

He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.

I wonder if the isolation of these years, and the subsumption of our locked-down lives by digital screens, has just wiped out any last remaining commitment to art as something more than a communications medium.

Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.

God has always been all over West’s music—the gospel-adjacent soul samples, the ever-present sense of glory and revelation—in a way that alternately suggests worship and subsumption.

There is more to the future of relativity, though, than its eventual subsumption into some still unforeseeable follow-up theory.

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