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

Derived Forms

• subˈsumptive, adjective

Other Words From

• sub·sumptive adjective

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

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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.

From The New Yorker

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

From Economist

Related Words

• admittance
• formation
• incorporation
• involvement