consumingness

English

Etymology

consuming +‎ -ness

Noun

consumingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or characteristic of being consuming.
    • 2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, page 166:
      The power of that agony to transfix a victim is what Luban eloquently delineates. […] Kreimer too has given vivid expression to the consumingness of severe pain.
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