consuming

Holding one's attention or interest.

Adjective

  1. Holding one's attention or interest.
    • a consuming passion

Forms

more consuming most consuming

Derived

consumingly consumingness nonconsuming unconsuming

Noun

  1. consumption; the process by which something is consumed
    • […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations. - 1985, Hans Blumenberg, The...

Forms

consumings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of consume

Derived

time-consuming