Definition for Absorption:

• The act of taking up by suction.

Synonyms for Absorption:

• n.

  •
  • ejection,
  • saturation,
  • appropriation,
  • fusion,
  • removal,
  • incorporation,
  • union,
  • absorb,
  • community,
  • intake,
  • conversion,
  • retention.
  •
  • excite,
  • spice.
  •absent-mindedness (noun)
  • absentmindedness.
  •absorption (noun)
  • assimilation,
  • preoccupation,
  • engrossment,
  • soaking up,
  • concentration,
  • immersion,
  • preoccupancy.
  •abstraction (noun)
  • pensivenesses,
  • reflectings,
  • pre occupation,
  • pre-occupations,
  • pre-occupation,
  • entrancement,
  • broodings,
  • pensiveness,
  • ponderings,
  • pondering,
  • entrancements,
  • ruminatings,
  • pre occupations.
  •assimilation, incorporation (noun)
  • ingestion,
  • taking in,
  • exhaustion,
  • inhalation,
  • suction,
  • osmosis,
  • drinking in,
  • consumption,
  • imbibing,
  • reception,
  • impregnation,
  • penetration.
  •attention (noun)
  • interest,
  • scrutiny,
  • rapture,
  • attentiveness,
  • intentness,
  • watchfulness,
  • care,
  • regardfulness,
  • enrapture,
  • attention,
  • caution,
  • heedfulness,
  • observation,
  • fascination,
  • concern,
  • diligence,
  • mindfulness,
  • alertness,
  • consideration,
  • notice.
  •brown study (noun)
  • profound thought,
  • profound thoughts,
  • deep thoughtfulnesses,
  • close study,
  • brown-study,
  • dreamy abstraction,
  • close studies,
  • dreamy abstractions,
  • quiet ecstasy,
  • quiet ecstasies,
  • deep thoughtfulness.
  •concentration (noun)
  • Massing,
  • convergings,
  • close attention,
  • intensification,
  • compactings,
  • flockings,
  • close attentions,
  • massings,
  • single-mindednesses,
  • centerings,
  • Clusterings,
  • huddlings,
  • singlemindednesses,
  • singlemindedness,
  • amassings,
  • coalescings,
  • single-mindedness,
  • focusings,
  • intensifications,
  • single mindedness,
  • single mindednesses.
  •daydream (noun)
  • reverie.
  •deep thinking (noun)
  • brown study.
  •deep thought (noun)
  • deep-thought.
  •determination; seriousness (noun)
  • earnestness.
  •digestion (noun)
  • metabolisms,
  • eupepsias,
  • metabolism,
  • Eupepsia.
  •earnestness (noun)
  • re-solutions,
  • serious-mindednesses,
  • serious mindednesses,
  • urgency,
  • re-solution,
  • seriousmindedness,
  • warmth,
  • seriousmindednesses,
  • re solutions,
  • serious-mindedness,
  • in tensities,
  • re solves,
  • serious mindedness,
  • re solve,
  • in tensity,
  • in-tensity,
  • re-solve,
  • persistence,
  • in-tensities,
  • re-solves.
  •engrossment (noun)
  • reflection,
  • deep thought,
  • daydreaming,
  • meditation,
  • submersion,
  • study,
  • contemplation,
  • studiousness.
  •physical resistance, friction (noun)
  • traction.
  •process (noun)
  • absorption.
  •reception (noun)
  • engorgement,
  • admission,
  • inspiration.
  •reflection (noun)
  • re-flection,
  • re-flections,
  • re flection,
  • re flections.
  •reverie (noun)
  • castle-building,
  • phantasies,
  • woolgathering,
  • castles in the air,
  • mind trip,
  • dreamings,
  • phantasy,
  • castles in air.
  •state of being lost in thought (noun)
  • abstraction.
  •swallowing (noun)
  • in gurgitation,
  • ingurgitations,
  • Ingurgitation,
  • deglutitions,
  • in-gurgitations,
  • in-gurgitation,
  • deglutition,
  • in gurgitations.
  •taking into throat (noun)
  • Swallowing.
  •thought (noun)
  • brooding,
  • lucubration,
  • envisioning,
  • analysis,
  • intellection,
  • musing,
  • evaluation,
  • thought,
  • Debating,
  • deliberation,
  • calculation,
  • speculation,
  • brain work,
  • cerebration,
  • cogitation,
  • imagination,
  • appraisal,
  • reasoning,
  • thinking,
  • weighing,
  • wistfulness.
  •total attention toward something (noun)
  • holding,
  • occupation,
  • engagement,
  • raptness,
  • hang-up,
  • captivation.
  •traction (noun)
  • resorption,
  • pullings,
  • draught,
  • Suctions,
  • haulage,
  • pulling,
  • draughts,
  • haulages,
  • towages,
  • towage.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • jingoism,
  • integrate,
  • microgeneration,
  • flag-waving,
  • life cycle,
  • outsider,
  • motivation,
  • ethnicity,
  • reproductive,
  • acceptance,
  • involvement,
  • outcast,
  • adaptation,
  • accept,
  • autolysis,
  • anglicize,
  • growth,
  • socialization,
  • assimilate,
  • identification,
  • unpatriotic,
  • public interest,
  • passion,
  • reproduction,
  • anaerobic respiration,
  • digestion,
  • monomania,
  • integration,
  • transpiration,
  • Biorhythm,
  • minority,
  • patriotic,
  • chemical digestion,
  • patriotism,
  • notion,
  • symbiosis,
  • lactation,
  • Egestion,
  • communal,
  • renaissance,
  • aerobic respiration,
  • respiration,
  • parthenogenesis,
  • rush,
  • commensalism,
  • love affair,
  • nationalistic,
  • patriot,
  • osmotic,
  • acculturate,
  • ethnic,
  • fixation.
  •
  • enthrallment.
  •
  • prepossession.

Paraphrases for Absorption:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    assimilation.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sorption.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    linkages.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    adsorption, absorbance, absorbency, takeover, mobilisation, reception, absorber, extraction, imputation, Sequestering, take-over, receptor, exploitation, consumption, transposition, disbursement, implementation, Reintegration, sink.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    absorptive, uptake, intake.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    dissipation, utilisation, internalization, ingestion, sequestration, take-up, absorptive, uptake, drawdown, admission, intake.
  • Verb, past tense
    uptake.

Antonyms for Absorption:

• n.

  • assimilation, incorporation
    boredom, distraction.
  • total attention toward something
    surrender.
  • Other antonyms:
    confusion, unconcern, detachment, bemusement, mindlessness, unconsciousness, unawareness, inattention, absence, indifference, obliviousness, abstraction, remoteness, bewilderment, disinterest, abstractedness, befuddlement, withdrawal, absentmindedness.

Absorption Sentence Examples:

• There must have been an enormous absorption of water into the interior, far greater than I ever imagined possible.

• And it was almost with an air of absorption that he turned away.

Holonyms for Absorption:

• n.

  • process
    extinction.

Hypernym for Absorption:

• n.

  • process
    imbibition.

Hyponym for Absorption:

• n.

  • process
    action, sorption, natural action, natural process, activity.