noun
Other Word Forms
- subsumptive adjective
Etymology
Origin of subsumption
1630–40; < Medieval Latin subsūmptiōn- (stem of subsūmptiō ) a subjoining, equivalent to subsūmpt ( us ) (past participle of subsūmere to subsume + Latin -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.
From Seattle Times
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.
From New York Times
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
From New York Times
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.
From The New Yorker
There is more to the future of relativity, though, than its eventual subsumption into some still unforeseeable follow-up theory.
From Economist
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