Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being consumptive, or a tendency to consumption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
consumptive .
Etymologies
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consumptive + -ness
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Examples
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The rate at which exhaustion of the resource is realized depends primarily on three factors: the number of users wanting to consume the commons, the consumptiveness of their uses, and the relative robustness of the commons.
"[Students] have become ultra-efficient in test preparation. And this hyper-efficiency has led them to look for a magic formula to get high scores.” Ann Althouse 2009
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