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interabsorption

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Etymology

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From inter- +‎ absorption.

Noun

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interabsorption (uncountable)

  1. The act of absorbing each other.
    • 1997, Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938, volume 3, page 30:
      A gradual interabsorption of sex characteristics in temperament results, the female assuming those of the male, the male losing those which distinguish him sharply from the female.