noun
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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
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He was mostly talking about television, but the logic applies to our collective subsumption by social media.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
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 ● Apr. 23, 2019
There is more to the future of relativity, though, than its eventual subsumption into some still unforeseeable follow-up theory.
From Economist ● Nov. 25, 2015
The possibility of this subsumption presupposes a tertium quid, which is homogeneous both with the object of empirical perception and with the conception, and so makes the subsumption mediately possible.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
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