Synonyms of the word absorption


ABSORPTIONACTION - ACTIVITY - ASSIMILATION - ATTENTION - CONCENTRATION - ENGROSSMENT - IMMERSION - PREOCCUPANCY - PREOCCUPATION - SORPTION

absorption

  • n. The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as.
  • n. Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
  • n. Mental assimilation.
  • n. (electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced…

action

  • n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • n. A way of motion or functioning.
  • n. A fast-paced activity.
  • n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
  • n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
  • n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
  • n. (military) Combat.
  • n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
  • n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
  • n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
  • n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
  • n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
  • n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
  • interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
  • v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

  • n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
  • n. Something done as an action or a movement.
  • n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

assimilation

  • n. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
  • n. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
  • n. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  • n. (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of…
  • n. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant…

attention

  • n. (uncountable) Mental focus.
  • n. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially…
  • n. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
  • interj. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

concentration

  • n. The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being…
  • n. A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
  • n. The proportion of a substance in a whole.
  • n. The matching game pelmanism.

engrossment

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being engrossed; concentration or preoccupation.
  • n. (countable) The fact or instance of writing in a legal document.

immersion

  • n. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
  • n. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
  • n. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept…
  • n. (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation…
  • n. (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other…

preoccupancy

  • n. The act or right of taking possession before another.

preoccupation

  • n. The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
  • n. The act of occupying something before someone else.

sorption

  • n. (sciences) Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption.

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