Absorption

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything.
 * 2) The act or process of being absorbed and made to disappear.
 * the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool
 * ''the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger
 * 1)  An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action.
 * the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
 * 1)  In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
 * 2) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
 * absorption in some employment
 * 1) (economics) Investment and consumption purchases by households, businesses and governments, both domestic and imported. When absorption exceeds production, the excess is the country's current account deficit.
 * 2) (shipping) The assumption by one carrier of the special charges of another carrier generally without increasing charges to the shipper.

Adjectives for Absorption
bookish; omnivorous; profound; tragic; unflattering; shame-faced;  poetic;  gradual; mental;  tense; detached; droll; indecent; stolid; passive; demoniac; vigorous.

Thesaurus
Walter Mitty; ablation; absence of mind; absentmindedness; absorbed attention; absorbency; absorbent; abstractedness; abstraction; adsorbent; adsorption; application; assimilation; attrition; bemusement; bile; blotter; blotting; blotting paper; brown study; burning up; castle-building; chemisorption; chemosorption; close study; concentration; consumption; contemplation; contemplativeness; daydream; daydreamer; daydreaming; deep study; deep thought; depletion; depth of thought; digestion; digestive system; drain; dream; dreaming; eating up; embarrassment; endosmosis; engagement; engrossment; enmeshment; entanglement; erosion; exhaustion; exosmosis; expending; expenditure; fantasy; fantasying; finishing; fit of abstraction; gastric juice; gastrointestinal tract; imbibing; immersion; implication; impoverishment; inclusion; infiltration; ingestion; intentness; intestinal juice; involution; involvement; liver; meditation; melancholy; monomania; mooning; moonraking; muse; musefulness; musing; muted ecstasy; obsession; osmosis; pancreas; pancreatic digestion; pancreatic juice; pensiveness; percolation; pipe dream; pipe-dreaming; predigestion; preoccupation; profound thought; rapt attention; reflectiveness; relation; reverie; saliva; salivary digestion; salivary glands; secondary digestion; seepage; single-mindedness; soaking-up; sorption; speculativeness; spending; sponge; sponging; squandering; stargazing; studiousness; study; submersion; taking-in; thoughtfulness; trance; using up; wastage; waste; wastefulness; wasting away; wearing away; wearing down; wistfulness; woolgathering

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, поглъщане,  всмукване
 * Chinese: 吸收 (xīshōu)
 * Czech: absorpce, vstřebání
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: imeyttäminen, sulauttaminen
 * French:


 * German:
 * Polish:, pochłanianie
 * Romanian: absorbire, absorbție
 * Russian: всасывание, впитывание, поглощение,
 * Spanish: absorción


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 吸收 (xīshōu)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: imeytyminen, sulautuminen
 * French:


 * German:
 * Polish: absorbowanie, pochłanianie
 * Romanian: absorbție
 * Russian: поглощение,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 吸收 (xīshōu)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, imeytyminen
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: absorbție
 * Russian: впитывание, поглощение,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 吸收 (xīshōu)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: imeytyminen


 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish: przyswajanie
 * Romanian: absorbție


 * Chinese: 全神貫注, 全神贯注 (quánshénguànzhù)
 * Finnish: uppoutuminen
 * German:


 * Polish: zaabsorbowanie
 * Russian: поглощённость
 * Spanish: concentración

Etymology
From absorptio:, from absorbeo:.

Anagrams

 * probations

Noun
absorption