consumingness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti

Proto-Italic *emō

Latin emō

Latin sūmō

Latin cōnsūmōder.

Old French consumerbor.

Middle English consumen

English consuming

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-der.

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English consumingness

From consuming +‎ -ness.

Noun

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.