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   absorption

   /əbˈzɔːpʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the process by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another: "the country's absorption into the Ottoman Empire" Similar incorporationassimilationintegrationappropriationtaking insubsuminginclusionco-optingswallowing up
   • 2. the state of being engrossed in something: "her absorption in the problems of the Third World" Similar immersionintentnessraptnessinvolvementengrossmentoccupationengagementpreoccupationcaptivationmonopolizationfascinationenthralmentinterest

   Word Origin 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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