IMBIBITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imbibition mean? 

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

1. (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel

2. the act of consuming liquids

  Familiarity information: IMBIBITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMBIBITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

absorption; soaking up ((chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Derivation:

imbibe (take (gas, light or heat) into a solution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of consuming liquids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

drinking; imbibing; imbibition

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

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))

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

gulping; guzzling; swilling (the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly)

potation (the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink))

Derivation:

imbibe (take in liquids)