Consumption may refer to:
- Biology
- Consumption (ecology)
- Economics
- Consumption (economics)
- Consumption function, an economic formula
- Use of final goods from a consumer until disposal
- Sociology
- Consumption (sociology)
- Other
- Consumption (disease), an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis
- Ingestion of food and drink
Famous quotes containing the word consumption:
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
“Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“What happens is that, as with drugs, he needs a stronger shot each time, and women are just women. The consumption of one woman is the consumption of all. You can’t double the dose.”
—Ian Fleming (1908–1964)