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absorption

noun as in total attention toward something

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Example Sentences

This may cause a negative autoimmune response, and inhibits proper digestion and nutrient absorption.

But for all his self-absorption, the Japanese Beethoven ought to have learned from his German counterpart in another manner.

It seems like your piece is a sort of a satire of the self-absorption and self-obsession of humans.

The progress of absorption is measured in decades, even centuries.

Almost 20 years before the HBO series of the same name, Ken Finkleman caricatured the self-absorption of TV news anchors.

Tests are of value in recognizing poisoning from ingestion and in detecting absorption from carbolized dressings.

It is a blind act of unconscious absorption, however little be absorbed.

It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

A simple experiment of Boussingault's illustrates this absorption very strikingly.

In the flowers, both by day and night, there is a constant absorption of oxygen, and evolution of carbonic acid.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to absorption, such as: consumption, digestion, intake, penetration, retention, and saturation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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