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consumingness

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English

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Etymology

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From consuming +‎ -ness.

Noun

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consumingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or characteristic of being consuming.
    • 2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, page 166:
      The power of that agony to transfix a victim is what Luban eloquently delineates. [] Kreimer too has given vivid expression to the consumingness of severe pain.