CONSUMMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consummation mean? 

• CONSUMMATION (noun)
  The noun CONSUMMATION has 2 senses:

1. the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse

2. the act of bringing to completion or fruition

  Familiarity information: CONSUMMATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSUMMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The completion of marriage by sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("consummation" is a kind of...):

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)

Derivation:

consummate (fulfill sexually)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of bringing to completion or fruition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("consummation" is a kind of...):

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consummation"):

fruition; realisation; realization (something that is made real or concrete)

climax; coming; orgasm; sexual climax (the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse)

fulfillment; fulfilment (the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc))

Derivation:

consummate (make perfect; bring to perfection)

consummate (fulfill sexually)

 Context examples 

He, he continued, pointing to the corpse, he suffered not in the consummation of the deed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I did feel, sometimes, for a little while, that I could have wished my wife had been my counsellor; had had more character and purpose, to sustain me and improve me by; had been endowed with power to fill up the void which somewhere seemed to be about me; but I felt as if this were an unearthly consummation of my happiness, that never had been meant to be, and never could have been.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Felix was too delicate to accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the event as to the consummation of his happiness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)