Absorption

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late 16th century (in the sense ‘the swallowing up of something’): from Latin absorptio(n- ), from absorbere ‘swallow up’ (see absorb).


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First attested in 1597. From Latin absorptiō(“a sucking in”), from absorbeō(“absorb”).


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absorption (n.)

1590s, "a swallowing up" (now obsolete), from Latin absorptionem (nominative absorptio) "a swallowing," noun of action from past-participle stem of absorbere "swallow up" (see absorb). From 1714 specifically of "disappearance by assimilation into something else."