interabsorption

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ absorption

Noun

interabsorption (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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