interabsorption
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
inter- + absorption
Noun[edit]
interabsorption (uncountable)
- The act of absorbing each other.
- 1997, Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938, volume 3, page 30:
- A gradual interabsorption of sex characteristics in temperament results, the female assuming those of the male, the male losing those which distinguish him sharply from the female.