Noun: absorption
| Singular | absorption |
| Plural | absorptions |
Sample Sentences
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The sponge showed remarkable absorption of water.
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Plants rely on the absorption of sunlight for photosynthesis.
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His complete absorption in the novel made him lose track of time.
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the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger
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the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool
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the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
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absorption in some employment
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A complete absorption testified their breathless interest. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
Nouns inflected like absorption
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
3. Proto-Indo-European *-o
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
5. Proto-Italic *ap
6. Latin abder.
7. Latin ab-
8. Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
12. Proto-Italic *sorβeō
13. Latin sorbeō
14. Latin absorbeō
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
16. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
18. Proto-Italic *-tiō
19. Latin -tiō
20. Latin absorptiōder.
21. English absorption
22. First attested in 1597. From Latin absorptiō (“a sucking in”), from absorbeō (“absorb”). Morphologically absorb + -tion. See: Latin Nouns '
absorptiō'.
Verbs referencing "absorption"
Finnish Nouns
absorptio.