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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

/ əˈʌʃə /

noun

  1. the act of subsuming or the state of being subsumed
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Derived Forms

  • ܲˈܳپ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲ·ܳt adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of subsumption1

1630–40; < Medieval Latin ܲūپō- (stem of ܲūپō ) a subjoining, equivalent to ܲū ( us ) (past participle of ܲū to subsume + Latin -ō- -ion
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He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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