subsumption

noun

sub·​sump·​tion səb-ˈsəm(p)-shən 

: the act or process of subsuming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience. —Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023

Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood. —New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022

Such a prospect—that relation will tip over into identity, and then subsumption—sends shock waves of pleasure and terror through much of Bechdel’s work. —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021

Word History

Etymology

New Latin subsumption-, subsumptio, from subsumere

First Known Use

1652, in the meaning defined above